Synopsis

virt-manager bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated virt-manager package that fixes multiple bugs 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. The virt-manager utility 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 (Application Programming
Interface).

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, when executing the virt-manager utility on guests that used the
  KDE environment and X11 forwarding, the application window was displayed only
  for a short moment and terminated immediately afterwards. This update removes
  unnecessary hide_all() calls, and the window now remains open as expected.
  (BZ#589436)
  
• Previously, when the user created a disk image guest, and attached a Small
  Computer System Interface (SCSI) disk image for the storage, this addition
  damaged the guest disk image, which was no longer able to boot. This update
  disables the SCSI option for QEMU connections, and so prevents guest disk images
  from being damaged. (BZ#701873)
  
• Previously, the "env" command was used to provide the path to the python
  binary in the virt-manager script. This could in certain cases cause the
  virt-manager utility to misbehave. This update explicitly specifies the python
  binary path, and so ensures correct behavior of virt-manager. (BZ#708178)
  
• Previously, on the Xen hypervisor, the virt-manager utility did not use the
  specified disk size when using the keyboard for navigation. As a consequence,
  insufficient space could prevent a guest operating system from being installed.
  This update modifies virt-manager to use the specified disk size correctly when
  navigating by keyboard. Guest operating systems can now be installed
  successfully. (BZ#712206)
  

All users of virt-manager are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
fixes these bugs.

Solution

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

This update is available via the 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 - 589436 - virt-manager window does not appear when SSH to KDE box
• BZ - 701873 - virt-manager should not allow options that break guests (SCSI, etc.)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
virt-manager-0.6.1-16.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 2a7f97ed4a132f0b2e4a6c4fa4bda0b459184117af784c5ad684c402a1e68d42
x86_64
virt-manager-0.6.1-16.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: e4cc29a4d0715649b9b7f61b16138ba42773d63a7b82a581e7ebf691c831b941
ia64
virt-manager-0.6.1-16.el5.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: efa70fee2d48244fb4ffe5e869f53f88b3699c418022f2ae2a25a6b5a2dea954
i386
virt-manager-0.6.1-16.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 8e7411de844e0559df9571e834c9ec9aba09734c39e3980c3cac4df6c0f40d9e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
virt-manager-0.6.1-16.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 2a7f97ed4a132f0b2e4a6c4fa4bda0b459184117af784c5ad684c402a1e68d42
x86_64
virt-manager-0.6.1-16.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: e4cc29a4d0715649b9b7f61b16138ba42773d63a7b82a581e7ebf691c831b941
i386
virt-manager-0.6.1-16.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 8e7411de844e0559df9571e834c9ec9aba09734c39e3980c3cac4df6c0f40d9e