RHEA-2008:0467 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new virt-viewer package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

Virtual Machine Viewer (virt-viewer) is a lightweight interface for
interacting with the graphical display of a virtualized guest OS. It uses
GTK-VNC and libvirt to look up the VNC server details associated with the
guest. It is intended as a replacement for the traditional vncviewer
client, since the latter does not support SSL/TLS encryption of x509
certificate authentication.

All users requiring virt-viewer should install this newly-released package,
which adds this enhancement.

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 - 428164 - New package virt-viewer required for python-virtinst
• BZ - 434812 - [RHEL5.2]: virt-viewer doesn't capture Alt-s, even when the focus is "grabbed"

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)