RHBA-2019:2232 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for virt-manager is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) is a graphical tool for administering virtual machines for KVM, Xen, and Linux Containers (LXC). 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.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of virt-manager 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 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1463066 - "Clone this disk" button should disable for scsi disk guest in virt-manager GUI
• BZ - 1525337 - virt-manager shouldn't copy host cpu capabilities directly with setting 'copy host CPU definition'
• BZ - 1533015 - Mini problems in virt-install and virt-xml help message
• BZ - 1550513 - TypeError: 'OSXML' object is not iterable
• BZ - 1563638 - AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'clear'
• BZ - 1564863 - Fail to force clone an empty cdrom device
• BZ - 1565106 - Error creating virtual machine clone 'xxx': missing source information for device xxx
• BZ - 1565968 - Fail to update graphic listen type by virt-xml
• BZ - 1566187 - Disable guest discovery in virt-manager
• BZ - 1566818 - Cannot trigger ValueError(_("cpuset can only contain numeric, ',', '^', or '-' characters"))
• BZ - 1570549 - AttributeError: 'SYSInfo' object has no attribute 'parse'
• BZ - 1582667 - RFE - Ability to add IBPB feature policy to mitigate Spectre v2 for VM guests
• BZ - 1591670 - Missing source path attribute for char device
• BZ - 1667308 - Cannot modify guest's name on uefi firmware when creating new vm on rhel 7
• BZ - 1675743 - virt-clone does not honor '--nonsparse' argument
• BZ - 1679021 - RuntimeError: Path does not exist: /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/test_VARS.fd
• BZ - 1707380 - virt-install with --sysinfo type=random-string silently defaults to smbios
• BZ - 1710772 - Disk, Network and Memory stats are broken in the domain list view
• BZ - 1711806 - [machines] The default storage pool will not be created if user use the installation source type which is 'Existing Disk Image' to create a VM in an environment which is first time to use

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index