RHEA-2009:1334 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new qspice package is now available.

Description

The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is
a remote display protocol designed for virtual environments. SPICE users
can view a virtualized desktop or server from the local system or any
system with network access to the server. SPICE is available for a variety
of machine architectures and operating systems. SPICE is used in Red Hat
Enterprise Linux for viewing virtualized guests running on the KVM
hypervisor or on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors.

Users requiring remote display capabilities for KVM hypervisors should
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 Workstation 5 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 488580 - Add qspice package
• BZ - 501819 - RHEL-5 qspice is too old (0.1.0), kvm needs 0.3.0
• BZ - 503203 - qspice-libs-devel doesn't pull libXrandr-devel
• BZ - 504194 - change QXL and vdi_port vendor id
• BZ - 507718 - Remove qspice-mozilla subpackage and spicec cli
• BZ - 508133 - Wrong path geometry comparison result with bad rendering

CVEs

(none)

References

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