RHBA-2013:0451 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated virt-manager packages that fix three bugs and add one enhancement are
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

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

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, the live migration dialog box of the virt-manager tool incorrectly

described the unit of bandwidth as "Mbps" instead of "MB/s". With this update,
the migration dialog has been changed to provide correct information on
bandwidth units. (BZ#802639)

• Prior to this update, an unnecessary reboot occurred after the virt-manager

tool created a new guest virtual machine by importing an existing disk image.
With this update, a backported upstream patch has been provided, and
virt-manager no longer restarts after importing an existing disk image.
(BZ#824275)

• Due to differences in dependency solving between the yum and rpm programs, the

virt-manager package failed to update from "noarch" to newer architecture
version. With this update, a patch has been provided to mark the noarch version
as obsolete. As a result, the noarch package can now be updated without
complications. (BZ#872611)

This update also adds the following enhancement:

• The "Delete Associated storage files" option is enabled by default in the

virt-manager tool. A warning message is displayed prior to file deletion to
notify the user about this configuration. (BZ#878946)

All users of virt-manager are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which fix these bugs and add this enhancement.

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 - 824275 - create a new guest with virt-manager then migrate it to DST, guest will autostart on source host
• BZ - 872611 - update obsoletes in SPEC to ensure correct update virt-manager-0.8.6.noarch -> 0.9.x86_64

CVEs

(none)

References

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