RHEA-2007:0643 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated libvirt packages that support the new Xen 3.1.0 hypervisor ABI are
now available.

Description

Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of
recent versions of Linux and other operating systems.

The Xen hypervisor has been updated to Xen 3.1, which is not ABI compatible
with the earlier Xen 3.0.3 hypervisor. The new libvirt has support for
dealing with the new Xen 3.1 hypervisor ABI format. The libvirt update also
provides improved support for management of inactive virtual machines, and
a NAT based networking model.

All users of libvirt are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain 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 - 234840 - Add a virsh block-attach/block-detach command
• BZ - 243463 - Update to libvirt 0.2.3 to support new Xen 3.1.0 hypervisor
• BZ - 250146 - memory leak: virConnectClose() doesn't free all the memory it should
• BZ - 250789 - New style PVFB config not processed correctly when starting guests with libvirt
• BZ - 251594 - Driver for /etc/xen config files does not correctly handle virtual networks
• BZ - 253013 - "virsh console" should be documented in virsh man page
• BZ - 254188 - virt-install writes vncdisplay=<vncport> in domain config

CVEs

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References

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