- Issued:
- 2009-02-02
- Updated:
- 2009-02-02
RHEA-2009:0266 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
new package: para-virtualized drivers for fully-virtualized Windows guests
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
A new package containing installation images for para-virtualized drivers
for fully-virtualized Windows(r) XP and Windows Server 2003 guests running on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 (or later) hosts are now available as a
Technology Preview.
Description
Para-virtualized drivers are virtualization-aware drivers used by
fully-virtualized guests running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 (or
later). Fully-virtualized guests using the para-virtualized drivers gain
significant I/O performance over fully-virtualized guests running with
fully-virtualized drivers.
This new package provides CD-ROM images containing the para-virtualized
network and disk drivers for fully-virtualized guest instances of Windows
XP and Windows Server 2003 running on the x86, AMD64 and Intel 64
architectures.
To use the drivers, install them on a fully-virtualized Windows XP or
Windows Server 2003 guest running on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 (or
later) host.
Installation involves exporting the installation CD-ROM image from the Red
Hat Enterprise Linux host to the virtualized guest. For information
regarding installation, configuration and troubleshooting these drivers
refer to the documentation included with the drivers. The documentation is
located in the /usr/share/doc/xenpv-win-32-bit-0.97.4/ directory of 32-bit
host systems. On 64-bit host systems, the documentation can be found at
/usr/share/doc/xenpv-win-64-bit-0.97.4/.
Technology Preview features are included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux to
provide the features with wide exposure, with the further goal of
supporting these features in a future release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Technology Preview features are not supported under Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.3 subscription services and may not be functionally complete. Red
Hat welcomes customer feedback and suggestions for Technology Previews.
Advisories will be provided for high-severity security issues in Technology
Preview features.
This Technology Preview does have several known issues, including:
- Qcow images do not work with the Windows para-virtualized drivers. If you
create a qcow disk and then add it to the configuration of a guest running
the para-virtualized drivers, the guest will no longer boot. (Red Hat
Bugzilla #452299)
- 32-bit Windows guests using the para-virtualized drivers must have less
than 4GB of memory. Installing the para-virtualized drivers on Windows
guests with 4GB of RAM will cause the guest to hang during start-up when
the guest is re-booted. (Red Hat Bugzilla #469767)
- After the para-virtualized drivers are installed, the shutdown-command
issued from the host via libvirt (virsh or VirtManager) does not work. Use
the destroy command instead. (Red Hat Bugzilla #473121)
The file README.txt, included as part of the documentation of these
packages at /usr/share/doc/xenpv-win-32-bit-0.97.4/ on 32-bit host systems
and /usr/share/doc/xenpv-win-64-bit-0.97.4/ on 64-bit host systems,
includes a complete list of known issues and their workarounds.
Note: these drivers do not yet support Windows Server 2008 or Windows
Vista.
All users running fully-virtualized instances of Windows XP or Windows
Server 2003 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 and later hosts interested in
previewing the improved I/O of these drivers should install these new
packages.
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 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.3 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
Fixes
- BZ - 468920 - Add xenpv-win-64bit driver package to the RHEL Supplementary channels as Technology Preview
- BZ - 469345 - Add xenpv-win-32bit driver package to the RHEL Supplementary channels as Technology Preview
- BZ - 475538 - Xen winpv package lacks latest documentation
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
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xenpv-win-0.97.4-3.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 3ef85b3aec5c4f2c9c97a5c99d7c740c31d2bc8a6adc3c0814f112a074c641ba |
x86_64 | |
xenpv-win-32-bit-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: ba96bb8aa9305929ffad1d326129f85b987f57de372cbaf9bf51503f99a0d4ef |
xenpv-win-32-bit-debug-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: c9fa925cead3ea524e39034d08eaa5a7c795becb94126b5e219f1018e455838a |
xenpv-win-64-bit-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f3796cb0729e26bd03f975ef969ca2d020a9bbddb58d8b4f1b9305a8e28d78c3 |
xenpv-win-64-bit-debug-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 480e82f3b51f395359afc5686a60b018330ad6f923ebade7c51f19dbb66039c7 |
i386 | |
xenpv-win-32-bit-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: ba96bb8aa9305929ffad1d326129f85b987f57de372cbaf9bf51503f99a0d4ef |
xenpv-win-32-bit-debug-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: c9fa925cead3ea524e39034d08eaa5a7c795becb94126b5e219f1018e455838a |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.3
SRPM | |
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x86_64 | |
i386 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.3
SRPM | |
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x86_64 | |
i386 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
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xenpv-win-0.97.4-3.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 3ef85b3aec5c4f2c9c97a5c99d7c740c31d2bc8a6adc3c0814f112a074c641ba |
x86_64 | |
xenpv-win-32-bit-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: ba96bb8aa9305929ffad1d326129f85b987f57de372cbaf9bf51503f99a0d4ef |
xenpv-win-32-bit-debug-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: c9fa925cead3ea524e39034d08eaa5a7c795becb94126b5e219f1018e455838a |
xenpv-win-64-bit-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f3796cb0729e26bd03f975ef969ca2d020a9bbddb58d8b4f1b9305a8e28d78c3 |
xenpv-win-64-bit-debug-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 480e82f3b51f395359afc5686a60b018330ad6f923ebade7c51f19dbb66039c7 |
i386 | |
xenpv-win-32-bit-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: ba96bb8aa9305929ffad1d326129f85b987f57de372cbaf9bf51503f99a0d4ef |
xenpv-win-32-bit-debug-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: c9fa925cead3ea524e39034d08eaa5a7c795becb94126b5e219f1018e455838a |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
SRPM | |
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xenpv-win-0.97.4-3.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 3ef85b3aec5c4f2c9c97a5c99d7c740c31d2bc8a6adc3c0814f112a074c641ba |
x86_64 | |
xenpv-win-32-bit-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: ba96bb8aa9305929ffad1d326129f85b987f57de372cbaf9bf51503f99a0d4ef |
xenpv-win-32-bit-debug-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: c9fa925cead3ea524e39034d08eaa5a7c795becb94126b5e219f1018e455838a |
xenpv-win-64-bit-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f3796cb0729e26bd03f975ef969ca2d020a9bbddb58d8b4f1b9305a8e28d78c3 |
xenpv-win-64-bit-debug-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 480e82f3b51f395359afc5686a60b018330ad6f923ebade7c51f19dbb66039c7 |
i386 | |
xenpv-win-32-bit-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: ba96bb8aa9305929ffad1d326129f85b987f57de372cbaf9bf51503f99a0d4ef |
xenpv-win-32-bit-debug-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: c9fa925cead3ea524e39034d08eaa5a7c795becb94126b5e219f1018e455838a |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5
SRPM | |
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xenpv-win-0.97.4-3.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 3ef85b3aec5c4f2c9c97a5c99d7c740c31d2bc8a6adc3c0814f112a074c641ba |
x86_64 | |
xenpv-win-32-bit-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: ba96bb8aa9305929ffad1d326129f85b987f57de372cbaf9bf51503f99a0d4ef |
xenpv-win-32-bit-debug-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: c9fa925cead3ea524e39034d08eaa5a7c795becb94126b5e219f1018e455838a |
xenpv-win-64-bit-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f3796cb0729e26bd03f975ef969ca2d020a9bbddb58d8b4f1b9305a8e28d78c3 |
xenpv-win-64-bit-debug-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 480e82f3b51f395359afc5686a60b018330ad6f923ebade7c51f19dbb66039c7 |
i386 | |
xenpv-win-32-bit-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: ba96bb8aa9305929ffad1d326129f85b987f57de372cbaf9bf51503f99a0d4ef |
xenpv-win-32-bit-debug-0.97.4-3.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: c9fa925cead3ea524e39034d08eaa5a7c795becb94126b5e219f1018e455838a |
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