RHEA-2008:0370 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new package, gtk-vnc, is now available.

Description

gtk-vnc is a Virtual Network Computing (VNC) viewer widget for The GIMP
Toolkit (GTK). It provides a core C library, written using co-routines so
as to be asynchronous while remaining single-threaded. It also includes a
PyGTK wrapper which provides access to widget functionality using Python.
Finally, two example programs are included to illustrate the widget's use.

This new package adds support for the zlib-based Rise and Run-length
Encoding (RRE). gtk-vnc is also used by virt-manager to display guest
consoles.

All virt-manager users and all users wanting a light-weight, secure remote
console viewer should install this newly released package.

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
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 428162 - New package gtk-vnc 0.3.2 required for virt-manager
• BZ - 431811 - [RHEL5.2] X-server displays weird color
• BZ - 433711 - Mouse does not focus to guest console when opening it
• BZ - 435763 - Keyboard doesn't respond properly in virt-manager

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)