RHBA-2023:3710 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for virtio-win is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• [virtio-win][NetKVM] The minimum(32) of RxCapacity in 'defaultConfiguration'

does not equal the minimum(16) in inf (BZ#2203205)

• [virtio-win][fwcfg] Fwcfg - Windows update reports errors (BZ#2203207)
• [virtio-win][virtiofs][nfs] overwrite confirmation during copy > 5K file to

the shared directory -nfs mounted (BZ#2203209)

• [virtiofs][virtio-win] Give some hint when start virtiofs service with device

is disabled detached (BZ#2211912)

Enhancement(s):

• [RFE][virtio-win][virtio-fs] Add host UID and GID parameters (BZ#2203228)
• [virtio-win] Add WinFsp code to virtio-win source RPM (BZ#2208395)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described
in this advisory, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2203205 - [virtio-win][NetKVM] The minimum(32) of RxCapacity in 'defaultConfiguration' does not equal the minimum(16) in inf [rhel-9.2.0.z]
• BZ - 2203207 - [virtio-win][fwcfg] Fwcfg - Windows update reports errors [rhel-9.2.0.z]
• BZ - 2203209 - [virtio-win][virtiofs][nfs] overwrite confirmation during copy > 5K file to the shared directory -nfs mounted [rhel-9.2.0.z]
• BZ - 2203228 - [RFE][virtio-win][virtio-fs] Add host UID and GID parameters [rhel-9.2.0.z]
• BZ - 2208395 - [virtio-win] Add WinFsp code to virtio-win source RPM [rhel-9.2.0.z]
• BZ - 2211912 - [virtiofs][virtio-win] Give some hint when start virtiofs service with device is disabled detached [rhel-9.2.0.z]

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)