RHBA-2012:0772 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated virt-viewer packages that fix multiple bugs and add various enhancements
are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Virtual Machine Viewer (virt-viewer) is a lightweight interface for interacting
with the graphical display of a virtualized guest. Virtual Machine Viewer uses
libvirt and is intended as a replacement for traditional VNC or SPICE clients.

These updated virt-viewer packages include numerous bug fixes and enhancements.
Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are
directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 Technical Notes for information on
the most significant of these changes:

https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.3_Technical_Notes/virt-viewer.html#RHBA-2012-0772

All users of virt-viewer are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

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/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 789090 - spice-client: smart-card (CAC) support from the controller
• BZ - 795437 - remote-viewer: honor hot keys passed via controller
• BZ - 797015 - [virt-viewer] Virt-viewer doesn't start with specific locales.
• BZ - 797082 - [virt-viewer]virt-viewer crashed when try reconnect to a guest with spice graphic device after restart the guest.
• BZ - 799038 - Add Spice foreign menu support
• BZ - 802673 - Virt-viewer form cannot be closed through GUI when it connects to a VNC guest.
• BZ - 803834 - USB Auto-Share does not work in initial full-screen of spice session
• BZ - 810544 - virt-viewer adds 1px black bar to the bottom in full screen mode, thus causing guest to be unnecessarily scaled
• BZ - 811131 - man docs for remote-viewer miss hyphens of "--full-screen" options.
• BZ - 811191 - Missing --attach in the virt-viewer man page
• BZ - 813375 - support ipv6 addresses on CLI
• BZ - 814043 - remote-viewer does not have an application name set for human friendly title bar
• BZ - 816550 - virt-viewer create new window for multiple monitors when reconnect to a guest.
• BZ - 819436 - "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" displayed in terminal when a virt-viewer
• BZ - 822683 - Two display channels with the same id get connected to the server after migration in switch-mode

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.3_Technical_Notes/virt-viewer.html#RHBA-2012-0772