RHBA-2014:0034 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated mingw-virt-viewer package that adds multiple enhancements is now
available.

Description

The MinGW Windows virt-viewer console application implements, among other
things, the client side of SPICE protocol. This package contains the
remote-viewer executable, the next generation of spice-client.

A list of the bugs fixed in this update is available in the Technical Notes
book:

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.3/html/Technical_Notes/chap-RHBA-20140034_-_mingw-virt-viewer.html

Administrators of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environments should install
this new package.

Solution

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

To install or upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.3 refer to the
Installation Guide:

http://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.3/html/Installation_Guide/index.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat Virtualization 3.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization 3 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 846006 - [RFE] auto-add Hot Key combos to "Send key" menu
• BZ - 857038 - spice-x should be able to use already installed remote-viewer or usbclerk instance of different architecture
• BZ - 873272 - Don't grab mouse cursor on client --> server mouse mode switch
• BZ - 873341 - Keyboard input focus broken (mostly win key captured by both guest and client)
• BZ - 919166 - Two instances of virt-viewer running at the same time causes USB redir to misbehave.
• BZ - 951664 - Virt-viewer client video graphics stops during migration.
• BZ - 955279 - only one desktop effect to be disabled can be specified
• BZ - 958550 - Killing first virt-viewer display (Main display in Windows) of 4 will result in no functionality of remaining 3 virt-viewer windows.
• BZ - 963835 - virt-viewer with smartcard crashes in Enhanced Protected Mode of IE10
• BZ - 967154 - virt-viewer does not respect auto configuration of monitors
• BZ - 975472 - Windows virt-viewer should ignore trailing '/' for SpiceProxyDefault value
• BZ - 978362 - Application windows of virt-viewer are in "unreasonable" size after switching off from full-screen.
• BZ - 983111 - Rebase virt-viewer against 0.5.6
• BZ - 984136 - Provide MSI machine installer for client
• BZ - 985898 - Too many windows open with fullscreen=auto-conf
• BZ - 986027 - Alt+Tab key combo only recognized by Windows client
• BZ - 1000125 - [RFE] copy & paste: translate end of line sequences to target OS native ones
• BZ - 1002697 - Mouse pointer appears black on PuTTY terminals opened from windows 7 guests [mingw-virt-viewer]
• BZ - 1004440 - Allow to send Ctrl+Alt+Del using a keyboard shortcut
• BZ - 1014089 - MSI does not contain libsqlite3-0.dll
• BZ - 1017302 - mingw-virt-viewer crashes after 10+ MB plain text is copied to clipboard in the guest
• BZ - 1017909 - Without the "--full-screen=auto-conf" switch, when you "Exit Fullscreen," that closes all full-screens
• BZ - 1021618 - resolution set by user inside the VM gets reverted to client resolution when in full screen
• BZ - 1023447 - Keyboard shortcuts not working properly when started using SpiceX

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)