RHBA-2015:2211 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated virt-viewer, spice-gtk, and libgovirt packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The virt-viewer packages provide Virtual Machine Viewer, which is a lightweight interface for interacting with the graphical display of a virtualized guest.

The spice-gtk packages provide a GIMP Toolkit (GTK+) widget for Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) clients. Both Virtual Machine Manager and Virtual Machine Viewer can make use of this widget to access virtual machines using the SPICE protocol.

The libgovirt packages contain a library that allows applications to use the oVirt Representational State Transfer (REST) API to list virtual machines (VMs) managed by an oVirt instance. The library is also used to get the connection parameters needed to establish a connection to the VMs using SPICE or Virtual Network Computing (VNC).

The virt-viewer packages have been upgraded to upstream version 2.0, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1181288)

The spice-gtk packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.26, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1214101)

The spice-gtk packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.3.3, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1214234)

This update also fixes the following bug:

• When viewing a remote SPICE session in windowed mode and resizing the viewer window to be wider than the virtual screen, the viewer window was automatically resized to fit the screen width, and the resolution of the remote screen was scaled down. This unintentional behavior has been corrected, and in the described scenario, both the viewer window and the resolution of its contents stay unchanged. (BZ#1242509)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:

• With this update, virt-viewer supports SPICE HTTP and HTTPS proxy with basic access authentication. This allows user credentials to be validated at proxy level, and SPICE remote access users thus do not require VPN connection to authenticate. (BZ#1228759)

Users of virt-viewer, spice-gtk, and libgovirt 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.

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

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1084393 - virt-viewer --direct tries to connect to localhost when remote VM is only listening on 127.0.0.1
• BZ - 1140512 - RFE: Print file transfer summary to the log (preferably at info level)
• BZ - 1141228 - --attach doesn't work with SELinux
• BZ - 1157981 - 'NUM LOCK' works reversely with host after reboot guest
• BZ - 1163647 - virt-viewer will core dump with -r option via ssh when destroy the guest
• BZ - 1164052 - virt-viewer cannot reconnect libvirtd connection via ssh after libvirtd restart
• BZ - 1167829 - Not possible to drag and drop multiple files
• BZ - 1170071 - virt-viewer cannot set zoom level in cmd line for vnc guest
• BZ - 1181288 - Rebase virt-viewer to latest upstream release
• BZ - 1196552 - virt-viewer --attach makes it crash
• BZ - 1205548 - smartcard cannot work after restart guest
• BZ - 1210248 - Add 'admin' key to [ovirt] .vv file section
• BZ - 1214101 - Rebase spice-gtk to 0.26 (rhel6 sync)
• BZ - 1214234 - Rebase libgovirt to 0.3.2 (same as RHEL 6.7) or 0.3.3 (latest upstream)
• BZ - 1223469 - Add minimum version check to rhev spice-client
• BZ - 1230602 - Shortcuts missing from "Send key" menu when started using plugin
• BZ - 1235442 - High Resolution Multi-Monitor Windows Guest freeze
• BZ - 1242509 - After resizing virt-viewer window bigger than screen size, window gets resized back to screen size, and content scaled down
• BZ - 1242602 - connecting to VM changes its resolution
• BZ - 1243228 - virt-viewer window crashes after restart libvirtd in remote host
• BZ - 1244878 - Windows needs to send complete monitors_config message to client
• BZ - 1246022 - Error massage pop up "Unable to connect to libvirt with URI: [none]." continuously when stop libvirtd service
• BZ - 1247907 - Cannot enable display 1 when it was disabled in previous session

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal