RHBA-2013:0441 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated virtio-win packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements
are now available.

Description

The virtio-win packages provide paravirtualized network drivers for most
Microsoft Windows operating systems. Paravirtualized drivers are
virtualization-aware drivers used by fully virtualized guests running on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux.

The virtio-win 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 6.4 Technical Notes for information on the most
significant of these changes:

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.4_Technical_Notes/virtio-win.html

All users of virtio-win are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
provide numerous bug fixes and 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 Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 750421 - reboot windows2003 guest will hang after change balloon size
• BZ - 760022 - Add netKVM driver for winxp and win7 guest in VFD file
• BZ - 768795 - [virtio-win][balloon]BSOD when excercising Balloon Driver
• BZ - 790305 - [virtio-scsi] BSOD occurs when install virtio scsi driver in windows guest
• BZ - 797032 - [whql][virtio-scsi] Storage Query Property job failed due to " 0 is an invalid value for SerialNumberOffset. "
• BZ - 800716 - [whql][virtio-scsi]Reinstall with IO fails and it also affects other jobs (windows 2008 and windows 7)
• BZ - 803633 - [virtio-win][balloon]balloon does not work after s3 or s4
• BZ - 805423 - [virtio-win][serial]Removing serial port leads guest hangs up while transferring data between host and guest
• BZ - 807967 - [virtio-win][netkvm]network can not get the ip after s3 or long disable\enable
• BZ - 814684 - [virtio-win][block] qemu-kvm stopped w/ io-error when initialize readonly disk in win2k8R2
• BZ - 814896 - [virtio-win][serial] virtio-serial does not work after s4 in win7-32/64 bit guests
• BZ - 815295 - [whql][netkvm]NDISTest6.5, "Glitch free" subtest always failed in Windows 7 64/32 bits and windows 2008 R2
• BZ - 819412 - [virtio-win][serial]qemu complains "Unexpected port id 1 for device virtio-serial0.0" when hotunplug serial while RHEV-Agent service running in the guest
• BZ - 824814 - [virtio-win][viostor]Online enlarging data image size does not work
• BZ - 827000 - [virtio-win][scsi]Fail to boot the windows guest with virtio-blk-pci system image and virtio-scsi data disk
• BZ - 828275 - Implement control queue and RX filtering using host in NetKVM
• BZ - 831570 - [virtio-win][balloon]windows7 guest crash when disable/enable virtIO balloon device during enlarging/evicting memory
• BZ - 833659 - qxl driver in virtio-win-1.5.2 is not digital signed
• BZ - 833671 - [whql][Serial] BSOD with error code "C4" happened in many jobs for serial whql on HCK
• BZ - 834174 - [whql][netkvm] Job of "NDISTest6.5-[2 Machine]-PacketFilters" failed on HCK for virtual NIC
• BZ - 834175 - [whql][Netkvm] Job of "NDISTest6.5-[1 Machine]-StandardizedKeywords" failed on HCK for virtual NIC
• BZ - 834179 - [whql][Netkvm] Job of "NDISTest6.5-[2 Machine]-ShortPackets" failed on HCK for virtual NIC
• BZ - 836474 - [whql][Netkvm] BSOD happened on Job of "NDISTest6.5-[2 Machine]-MPE_Ethernet.xml" failed on HCK for win2k8-32
• BZ - 836915 - [WHQL][scsi]Statics Tools Logo Test [Job id is 2087] failed on windows 2012 on HCK
• BZ - 837321 - viostor does not write guest features
• BZ - 837758 - [virtio-win][serial]Disable virtio serial driver from device manager hit BSOD After send data from host and guest
• BZ - 838002 - [WHQL][Network] Job of "NDISTest6.5-[1 Machine]-PM_Requirements" failed on HCK for win8-64
• BZ - 838005 - [whql][netkvm] Job of "NDISTest6.5-[1 Machine]-OffloadParity" failed on HCK on win8-64 and win2012
• BZ - 838008 - [whql][netkvm] Job of "NDISTest6.5-[1 Machine]-GenericMiniportRequirements" failed on HCK on win2012
• BZ - 838021 - [whql][viostor]Job 2074 - Statics Tools Logo Test failed in windows 2012 via HCK
• BZ - 839143 - [virtio-win][balloon]windows2003 guest balloon size restore the original value after reboot guest
• BZ - 839853 - [whql][viostor]Job - Sleep and PNP (disable and enable) with IO Before and After (Certification) failed on windows 2003 32 bits
• BZ - 841169 - [SVVP][netkvm]Job of "Win7 LoadGen Server Stress - Start Test for Virtual Server" failed caused by network bottleneck
• BZ - 841544 - Win2008r2 guest fail to get IP address after executed system_reset many times with virtio nic
• BZ - 842961 - [whql][balloon] [Job Id 1710]BSOD occurs dueing running "WDF Fault injection Logo Testing" job
• BZ - 843325 - [virtio-win][balloon]Guest memory can not continue evicting after enable balloon driver
• BZ - 855826 - [virtio-win][block]guest BSOD after upgrading virtio-win to build 35 with upstream qemu-kvm
• BZ - 857832 - [virtio-win][serial]qemu-kvm aborted during tranferring data via virtio console
• BZ - 858551 - [virtio-win][balloon]Guest memory can not continue evicting to the specified value after S3 during evicting memory.
• BZ - 859882 - Current default TX offload settings lead to low performance on guests from Windows server 2008 and up
• BZ - 864841 - [virtio-win] device driver for win2008 missed in virtio-win-prewhql-0.1-40
• BZ - 871679 - update latest whql'ed QXL driver to virtio-win package
• BZ - 873128 - [whql][WLK}[Netkvm] Job of "Ethernet - NDISTest6.0 - 2c_receivepackets" failed with WLK for win2k8/win7/win2k8-R2
• BZ - 873960 - [virtio-win][serial]Hibernate [S4] or Sleep [S3] leads guest get BSOD[0x000000D1] during data transferring
• BZ - 873971 - [virtio-win][serial]Sleep and Hibernate will stop virtio serial device [view the status from device manager]
• BZ - 876033 - [whql][wlk][block]Guest got BSOD (9F) while running CHAOS-concurrent hardware and OS Test [jobid is 278 on WLK] job on win7 guest
• BZ - 876061 - [whql][wlk][block] windows 2003 can not generate dump file when hitting BSOD
• BZ - 876397 - [WHQL][block][WLK]Sleep stress with io failed (bsod 9f) on win 7 and win2k8-R2
• BZ - 876504 - [whql][wlk][block] viostor driver for win2k3 does not support s4
• BZ - 877333 - [whql][wlk][serial] Job "Common Scenario Stress With IO" and "Sleep Stress With IO" failed due to the same issue for win2k3-32/64
• BZ - 878291 - "DP WLK - Hot-Replace - Device Test - Verify driver support for D3 power state" job always fail on 2k864
• BZ - 879143 - [whql][wlk][scsi] scsi driver for win2k3 does not support s4
• BZ - 879178 - [whql][wlk][scsi] windows 2003 can not generate dump file when hitting BSOD
• BZ - 880569 - [whql][balloon][serial] "Check Kmdf Coinstaller Version" job fail on win8-64 guest
• BZ - 908163 - [virtio-win][VFD]Need to add Win2008R2 directorys&drivers in the floppy

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.4_Technical_Notes/virtio-win.html