RHBA-2019:2362 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for virtio-win is now available for the Supplementary channel of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The virtio-win package provides paravirtualized network drivers for most Microsoft Windows operating systems. Paravirtualized drivers are virtualization-aware drivers used by fully virtualized guests running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Fully virtualized guests using the paravirtualized drivers gain significantly better I/O performance than fully virtualized guests running without the drivers.

Users of virtio-win are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

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 Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1563004 - Add drivers for Windows Server 2019 (rhel-7.6)
• BZ - 1723902 - synchronize virtio-win RHEL-7.7 with virtio-win RHEL-8.0.1

CVEs

(none)

References

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