RHEA-2007:0637 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An updated virt-manager package that supports management of inactive guest
machines is now available.

Description

The Virtual Machine Manager application is a desktop user interface for
managing virtual machines.

The new virt-manager provides UI for managing inactive guest virtual
machines, removing the need to use command line tools for starting guests.
It also adds support for NAT based networking.

Users of virt-manager are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
adds these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 211559 - preferences dialog uses wrong window type
• BZ - 215020 - string issues
• BZ - 215338 - Add a "destroy" command to virt-manager
• BZ - 216704 - Suggest a name for the disk image file when creating a new domain
• BZ - 217372 - VM started with "maximum memory".
• BZ - 217596 - Backspace doesn't work in serial console
• BZ - 217702 - HVM save and restore fails with obscure error message
• BZ - 218773 - "acpi" and "apic" can't be changed by user with virt-manager
• BZ - 223508 - No gui equivalent of xm create
• BZ - 235317 - virt-manager gui comes with several locale errors
• BZ - 243464 - Update to 0.4.0 to support inactive domain management
• BZ - 249094 - virt-manager starts domU install even though error with duplicate name exists
• BZ - 249463 - Spelling typo 'VirtAUization'

CVEs

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References

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