RHBA-2014:1379 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated virt-viewer packages that fix numerous bugs are now available for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The virt-viewer packages provide Virtual Machine Viewer, which 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. The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing
Environments (SPICE) is a remote display protocol designed for virtual
environments.

These updated virt-viewer packages include numerous bug fixes. Space precludes
documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed to the Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Technical Notes for information on the most significant
of these changes:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.6_Technical_Notes/virt-viewer.html#RHBA-2014-1379

Users of virt-viewer are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs.

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/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 - 804184 - Should use a USB icon instead of a generic settings icon
• BZ - 805146 - Size of remote-viewer window is too small after switching off full-screen
• BZ - 846005 - RFE auto-add Hot Key combos to "Send key" menu
• BZ - 872723 - RFE: kioskmode option for virt-viewer
• BZ - 991261 - Some parameters included in help but not exist in virt-viewer manual
• BZ - 1002156 - Displays wrong part of desktop with one window in fullscreen
• BZ - 1004051 - Remote-Viewer: Zoom Out Behavior Is Not Consistent
• BZ - 1006737 - virt-viewer should not pop up debug message about couldn't load configuration by default
• BZ - 1007295 - No box pop out when input a wrong password and retry connection for vnc guest
• BZ - 1007494 - Remote-Viewer: Remove Unnecessary Warning Log
• BZ - 1007649 - Remove menu item "Automatically resize"
• BZ - 1007726 - Remove RHEL-only support for RHEVM 'Pass Ctrl+Alt+Delete to virtual machine'
• BZ - 1009513 - [remote-viewer] New display opens in fullscreen
• BZ - 1012972 - Enter in 'Do you want to close the session?' dialog should be equal to hitting 'OK' button
• BZ - 1018180 - primary monitor is switched if some screen gets bigger then current primary screen
• BZ - 1024199 - remote-viewer gui tool cannot recognize URI address with space character
• BZ - 1024309 - The viewer window still open if remote-viewer gui tool cannot connect the guest
• BZ - 1032960 - option -f will not launch all the display as fullscreen
• BZ - 1038726 - guest not resized on entering fullscreen: client doesn't send monitor config when launched via browser plugin and connected over TLS
• BZ - 1056041 - Screen is blurry for some resolutions when spice window is maximized.
• BZ - 1063238 - remote-viewer not invoked from "xdg-open console.vv" command
• BZ - 1083203 - virt-viewer doesn't automatically adjust resolution when opened fullscreen via vv-file
• BZ - 1096717 - The resolution of guest shows incorrect after switch to full-screen again with option --full-screen=auto-conf
• BZ - 1096720 - Unnecessary warning messages show when shutdown vnc guest during virt-viewer $guest --wait
• BZ - 1097038 - Rebase virt-viewer to 0.6.0
• BZ - 1099295 - fail to redirect USB to VM running on rhel7 with grayed 'USB device selection' button when redirect it from rhel6.5 with cirrus
• BZ - 1104064 - New display will be zoomed out to a very small display size
• BZ - 1105528 - Guest can not be resized to expected window size after zoom out
• BZ - 1107518 - Unnecessary warning info show when using virt-viewer -k to launch a spice guest
• BZ - 1111514 - Win7 guest can not be resized to expected window size after drag the virt-viewer window to a smaller size by mouse

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.6_Technical_Notes/virt-viewer.html#RHBA-2014-1379