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Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2008:0371 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Issued:
2008-05-21
Updated:
2008-05-21

RHEA-2008:0371 - Product Enhancement Advisory

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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.

View affected systems

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)

Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 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
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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