RHBA-2011:0077 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated virt-manager package that fixes two bugs and adds an enhancement is
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) is a graphical tool for administering
virtual machines for KVM, Xen, and QEMU. virt-manager can start, stop, add or
remove virtualized devices, connect to a graphical or serial console, and see
resource usage statistics for existing virtualized guests on local or remote
machines. It uses the libvirt API.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Due to various errors in some of the translations, users of Virtual Machine

Manager in non-English languages may have encountered superfluous characters or
even untranslated strings. These errors have been fixed, and the application is
now correctly translated to all available languages. (BZ#513324)

• Since version 5.4, KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) supports memory

overcommitment, which allows virtualized guests to use more than 100% of the
memory that is currently available on a host system. However, when this feature
was in use, Virtual Machine Manager did not display the total memory usage
correctly. With this update, the underlying source code has been adjusted to
check whether the memory is overcommitted, so that the "Memory Usage" field
reports the correct value. (BZ#521754)

As well, this update adds the following enhancement:

• URL installation options for fully virtualized guests have been enabled in

Virtual Machine Manager. This is accomplished by fetching a boot.iso disc image
from the URL install tree. (BZ#612676)

All users of virt-manager are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves these issues, and adds this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 513324 - virt-manager: Some translations are insufficient
• BZ - 521754 - virt-manager incorrectly displays overcommitted memory
• BZ - 612676 - virt-manager: advertise CDROM URL installs

CVEs

(none)

References

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