RHBA-2013:1578 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated virt-viewer packages that fix several 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 6.5 Technical Notes for information on
the most significant of these changes:

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.5_Technical_Notes/virt-viewer.html#RHBA-2013-1578

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/site/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 - 843103 - remote-viewer fails to start when --full-screen or -f precedes spice:// uri
• BZ - 846127 - Virt-Viewer: RHEL 6.3: Can't Change Resolution in Full Screen
• BZ - 856682 - [remote-viewer] gnome session unresponsive after connecting to vm with more displays
• BZ - 864026 - RFE remote-viewer connection dialog should handle connection errors
• BZ - 870710 - fail to resume the win7-64 guest by pressing the keyboard after do S3 if use remote-viewer
• BZ - 875559 - Add introduction in man page of remote-viewer about connecting to rhel guest with multiple monitors.
• BZ - 875697 - remote-viewer: "Unable to connect to the graphic server" error on guest shutdown
• BZ - 876444 - RHEL guest cannot extend its desktop to 2nd monitor after connect to it with remote-viewer for several times
• BZ - 876445 - Title bar of second form becomes invisible when connect to a RHEL guest with 2nd monitor through remote-viewer.
• BZ - 882133 - remote-viewer manual and help don't mention the new added GUI tool
• BZ - 882134 - Recent connections cannot remember the spice connect in remote-viewer GUI tool
• BZ - 885106 - The "Enter" key could not be used after user input the URL address in remote-viewer GUI tool
• BZ - 886570 - All "windows" have the same resolution in fullscreen
• BZ - 888629 - Remote-viewer cannot extend 4 displays to 4 physical monitors while connecting to a guest on RHEVM
• BZ - 890297 - libvirtd.log will get an I/O error when close a virt-viewer guest terminal
• BZ - 908057 - Cannot change resolution when View -> Automatically resize in RV is off
• BZ - 908408 - full-screen=auto-conf -- setting resolution in a loop
• BZ - 913601 - Send keys menu offset in fullscreen (multi head)
• BZ - 924577 - Mouse clicking doesn't work on Save Screenshot dialog after open it by Alt+S+P.
• BZ - 958966 - Can not disable display through Windows screen resolution utility.
• BZ - 961455 - Rebase virt-viewer against 0.5.6
• BZ - 980344 - virt-viewer should require gtk2 >= 2.20
• BZ - 980846 - Duplicate use of parameter -h in virt-viewer/remote-viewer manual
• BZ - 982840 - virt-viewer can't connect guest display console if only SPICE TLS autoport specified
• BZ - 990883 - No error messages show when input wrong spice password
• BZ - 1007205 - Guest can always get CAD combination key through RHEVM user portal

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.5_Technical_Notes/virt-viewer.html#RHBA-2013-1578