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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2017:0748 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2017-03-21
Updated:
2017-03-21

RHBA-2017:0748 - Bug Fix Advisory

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Synopsis

virt-what bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Red Hat Lightspeed patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for virt-what is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The virt-what utility is used to detect whether the operating system is running inside a virtual machine.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Technical Notes linked from the References section.

Users of virt-what are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

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 - 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 - 1249439 - virt-what does not identify rhev/ovirt
  • BZ - 1312431 - Add support for detecting ppc64 LPAR as virt guests
  • BZ - 1346571 - virt-what doesn't display xen-domU for a RHEL6.8 paravirtualized guest domain on RHEL5.11 Xen host.

CVEs

(none)

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.9_Release_Notes/index.html
  • https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.9_Technical_Notes/index.html
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: e35b313231c9293a56271dd65a9b57d4d62238bad55ba88b65ad11368350e204
x86_64
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 647be0a33ff60f9aa115f9cb922c04fbc646196dddd260f3778eb27b1830c12e
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 647be0a33ff60f9aa115f9cb922c04fbc646196dddd260f3778eb27b1830c12e
virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 18ea82270cf892fd89c7ef73832ac40bbd2ed08d795ab7fe1e42261941bc5dfb
virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 18ea82270cf892fd89c7ef73832ac40bbd2ed08d795ab7fe1e42261941bc5dfb
i386
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b2451e7d05048b37a04a120f10e89ed9a10dbcab1ba99753cb18360ff01de72d
virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.3.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3485cf5abf56939c5e1707c63dd2b27b3a143c60849754ccb67a01ddab204c7e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: e35b313231c9293a56271dd65a9b57d4d62238bad55ba88b65ad11368350e204
x86_64
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 647be0a33ff60f9aa115f9cb922c04fbc646196dddd260f3778eb27b1830c12e
virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 18ea82270cf892fd89c7ef73832ac40bbd2ed08d795ab7fe1e42261941bc5dfb
i386
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b2451e7d05048b37a04a120f10e89ed9a10dbcab1ba99753cb18360ff01de72d
virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.3.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3485cf5abf56939c5e1707c63dd2b27b3a143c60849754ccb67a01ddab204c7e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: e35b313231c9293a56271dd65a9b57d4d62238bad55ba88b65ad11368350e204
x86_64
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 647be0a33ff60f9aa115f9cb922c04fbc646196dddd260f3778eb27b1830c12e
virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 18ea82270cf892fd89c7ef73832ac40bbd2ed08d795ab7fe1e42261941bc5dfb
i386
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b2451e7d05048b37a04a120f10e89ed9a10dbcab1ba99753cb18360ff01de72d
virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.3.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3485cf5abf56939c5e1707c63dd2b27b3a143c60849754ccb67a01ddab204c7e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: e35b313231c9293a56271dd65a9b57d4d62238bad55ba88b65ad11368350e204
x86_64
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 647be0a33ff60f9aa115f9cb922c04fbc646196dddd260f3778eb27b1830c12e
virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 18ea82270cf892fd89c7ef73832ac40bbd2ed08d795ab7fe1e42261941bc5dfb
i386
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b2451e7d05048b37a04a120f10e89ed9a10dbcab1ba99753cb18360ff01de72d
virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.3.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3485cf5abf56939c5e1707c63dd2b27b3a143c60849754ccb67a01ddab204c7e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: e35b313231c9293a56271dd65a9b57d4d62238bad55ba88b65ad11368350e204
s390x
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: d2d0839aa32006fe3c955ddc80e1d094ee3d023136f5e5ecf09533bd7cf86793
virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.3.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 974444806d10681372d532b87539a3faee01a8dd1d69f28eeb7acabb92bee65f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: e35b313231c9293a56271dd65a9b57d4d62238bad55ba88b65ad11368350e204
ppc64
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 93d48566543ff1d4d03515e994a3fdbc293653438593089bc7b284b375a18279
virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.3.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 7e9d6c699d0c792d15309c822a4fe36363c049614f872152a78c849e3f938918

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: e35b313231c9293a56271dd65a9b57d4d62238bad55ba88b65ad11368350e204
x86_64
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 647be0a33ff60f9aa115f9cb922c04fbc646196dddd260f3778eb27b1830c12e
virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 18ea82270cf892fd89c7ef73832ac40bbd2ed08d795ab7fe1e42261941bc5dfb

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6

SRPM
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: e35b313231c9293a56271dd65a9b57d4d62238bad55ba88b65ad11368350e204
s390x
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: d2d0839aa32006fe3c955ddc80e1d094ee3d023136f5e5ecf09533bd7cf86793
virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.3.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 974444806d10681372d532b87539a3faee01a8dd1d69f28eeb7acabb92bee65f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6

SRPM
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: e35b313231c9293a56271dd65a9b57d4d62238bad55ba88b65ad11368350e204
x86_64
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 647be0a33ff60f9aa115f9cb922c04fbc646196dddd260f3778eb27b1830c12e
virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.3.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 18ea82270cf892fd89c7ef73832ac40bbd2ed08d795ab7fe1e42261941bc5dfb
i386
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b2451e7d05048b37a04a120f10e89ed9a10dbcab1ba99753cb18360ff01de72d
virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.3.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3485cf5abf56939c5e1707c63dd2b27b3a143c60849754ccb67a01ddab204c7e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6

SRPM
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: e35b313231c9293a56271dd65a9b57d4d62238bad55ba88b65ad11368350e204
s390x
virt-what-1.11-1.3.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: d2d0839aa32006fe3c955ddc80e1d094ee3d023136f5e5ecf09533bd7cf86793
virt-what-debuginfo-1.11-1.3.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 974444806d10681372d532b87539a3faee01a8dd1d69f28eeb7acabb92bee65f

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