RHBA-2015:1373 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated virt-manager packages that fix two bugs 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, when using the virt-manager tool to install a guest and checking

the "Virtualization tools" box in the "Customize package" menu, virt-manager
terminated unexpectedly after the installation was completed and the guest was
rebooted. This update fixes the underlying code, and virt-manager no longer
crashes in the described scenario. (BZ#1174464)

• Prior to this update, when using the virt-manager GUI to change the number of

CPU threads on the guest, the "Apply" and "Cancel" buttons incorrectly remained
disabled. With this update, the signal and callback names in virt-manager have
been corrected to properly parse changes to the cpu-thread, and the problem no
longer occurs. (BZ#1190641)

Users of virt-manager 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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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 x86_64
• 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 (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1190641 - Apply/Cancel button stay grey when changing cpu threads in processor settings

CVEs

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References

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