- Issued:
- 2008-05-21
- Updated:
- 2008-05-21
RHEA-2008:0371 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
python-virtinst enhancement and bug fix update
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated python-virtinst package that fixes several bugs and adds various
enhancements is now available.
Description
The python-virtinst package contains virtinst, a module to help start
installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora inside a virtual
machine. It supports para-virtualized and fully-virtualized guests. As
well, the python-virtinst package contains a script, virt-install, which
uses virtinst in a command line mode.
This updated package provides the following enhancements:
- python-virtinst has been upgraded to a newer version, (0.300.2).
- the virt-install command now provides a manual page.
- virt-install is now able to install Fedora 8 guests.
- CPU pinning is now supported when new guests are created with the
'--cpuset' option.
- virt-install now gives a warning if creating a guest would overwrite an
existing storage file.
- improved error messages when virt-install is not able to install a
virtualized guest via a URL.
- support for the --noreboot option has been added to virt-install.
- virt-install is now enabled to log messages.
In addition, this updated python-virtinst package provides fixes for the
following bugs:
- libvirt would emit extraneous error messages when running virt-install.
- virt-install was unable to create Xen instances of Fedora rawhide.
- special characters were unescaped in file names represented in XML,
resulting in a failure to create guests.
- problems with character-escaping with XML.
- several formerly-ambiguous error messages have been clarified.
- virt-install is now able to install virtual machines from Satellite servers.
- a VirtualDisk object is now built using the CD-ROM path passed to
virt-install in order to reuse already-present validation.
- python-virtinst now checks and warns the user if the user attempts
installation to regular files already used by another domain.
- a bug which caused the rejection of hyphenated virtual machine names has
been fixed.
Users are advised to upgrade to this updated python-virtinst package, which
resolves these issues and 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 - 221542 - Changes to python-virtinst have caused virt-install to reject a VM name that contains a hyphen
- BZ - 249424 - uncaught error in virt-install at virtual CD image question
- BZ - 253561 - virtinst - check if image file is in use by another domain
- BZ - 253890 - add persistent logging to virt-install
- BZ - 324701 - virt-install lacks XML escaping of extra-args
- BZ - 367051 - virt-install cannot install from tree provided by Satellite server
- BZ - 372001 - ambigous error message
- BZ - 384791 - virt-manager will not install F8 via http
- BZ - 400371 - Add fedora 8 label to allow for full virt install
- BZ - 417051 - Special characters are not escaped in filenames for domain XML
- BZ - 428161 - Rebase to 0.300.2 to support virt-manager remote management
- BZ - 431436 - virt-clone is broken due to input validation mistake
- BZ - 433491 - [RHEL5] virt-install: error: no such option: --noreboot
- BZ - 433831 - Satellite installs broken again: global name 'FedoraImageStore' is not defined
- BZ - 434786 - virt-install is now interactive
- BZ - 437595 - Cannot create xen rawhide instance
- BZ - 439850 - Every install, libvirt error messages are shown on virt-install
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
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python-virtinst-0.300.2-8.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 6a0e2e39891faaf059fab67905422f97db8ad0bf2befc6ffa11e0a6dfd6e0dbf |
x86_64 | |
python-virtinst-0.300.2-8.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: bb4b0bed9692878ad28ec5573ac94d12d7266f8add5c07c24806daa9ed66f409 |
ia64 | |
python-virtinst-0.300.2-8.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: bb4b0bed9692878ad28ec5573ac94d12d7266f8add5c07c24806daa9ed66f409 |
i386 | |
python-virtinst-0.300.2-8.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: bb4b0bed9692878ad28ec5573ac94d12d7266f8add5c07c24806daa9ed66f409 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
python-virtinst-0.300.2-8.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 6a0e2e39891faaf059fab67905422f97db8ad0bf2befc6ffa11e0a6dfd6e0dbf |
x86_64 | |
python-virtinst-0.300.2-8.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: bb4b0bed9692878ad28ec5573ac94d12d7266f8add5c07c24806daa9ed66f409 |
i386 | |
python-virtinst-0.300.2-8.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: bb4b0bed9692878ad28ec5573ac94d12d7266f8add5c07c24806daa9ed66f409 |
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