RHEA-2009:1308 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

xorg-x11-qxl-drv is a new package that is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 as a technology preview.

Description

xorg-x11-qxl-drv is an X11 video driver for the qemu QXL video accelerator.
This driver makes it possible to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as a guest
operating system under KVM and QEMU, using the SPICE protocol.

Technology preview features are included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux to
provide the features with wide exposure with the 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 5.4
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.

All users who plan to preview this forthcoming technology are advised to
install this new 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/docs/DOC-11259

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 for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 489806 - Add Tech Preview xorg-x11-drv-qxl package
• BZ - 504091 - QXL: X cannot start with installed qxl driver

CVEs

(none)

References

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