- Issued:
- 2011-05-19
- Updated:
- 2011-05-19
RHEA-2011:0604 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
new package: virt-what
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Lightspeed patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
A new virt-what package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Description
The virt-what tool is used to detect whether the operating system is running
inside a virtual machine.
This enhancement update adds a new virt-what package to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6. The virt-what utility enables programs to detect if they are running in a
virtual machine, as well as details about the type of hypervisor. (BZ#627886)
All users requiring virt-what 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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
Fixes
- BZ - 670272 - Backport support for Microsoft Hyper-V
- BZ - 670530 - Backport support for Hitachi Virtualization Manager (HVM) Virtage LPAR
- BZ - 671126 - virt-what does not detect EC2 Xen instances
- BZ - 671132 - Backport support for IBM SystemZ z/VM
- BZ - 672285 - virt-what: HW partitioning systems
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 6
| SRPM | |
|---|---|
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: e45fc44fef3c0b6236e202cb9b9224a856e29be0b3b840cd2217327314090f0d |
| x86_64 | |
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: f4a6b0f3b88d470599e01b843dab18859e86f3a73e58fe93d64ddd431ffa45d5 |
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: f4a6b0f3b88d470599e01b843dab18859e86f3a73e58fe93d64ddd431ffa45d5 |
| virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 98f90d8e797d26d017aee2ad9f26ff2d0a3d07e1db96b736abd0640c4a514185 |
| virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 98f90d8e797d26d017aee2ad9f26ff2d0a3d07e1db96b736abd0640c4a514185 |
| i386 | |
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.i686.rpm | SHA-256: b53784751190a6812a736ba5ac859eca29c7504552a020b1543868c803ef4dcb |
| virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.i686.rpm | SHA-256: e74a4bb0c759fe0bd6c3f129405c8aba2ba1bc7b5970ec06fa180f83b27c6f50 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6
| SRPM | |
|---|---|
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: e45fc44fef3c0b6236e202cb9b9224a856e29be0b3b840cd2217327314090f0d |
| i386 | |
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.i686.rpm | SHA-256: b53784751190a6812a736ba5ac859eca29c7504552a020b1543868c803ef4dcb |
| virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.i686.rpm | SHA-256: e74a4bb0c759fe0bd6c3f129405c8aba2ba1bc7b5970ec06fa180f83b27c6f50 |
| x86_64 | |
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: f4a6b0f3b88d470599e01b843dab18859e86f3a73e58fe93d64ddd431ffa45d5 |
| virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 98f90d8e797d26d017aee2ad9f26ff2d0a3d07e1db96b736abd0640c4a514185 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6
| SRPM | |
|---|---|
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: e45fc44fef3c0b6236e202cb9b9224a856e29be0b3b840cd2217327314090f0d |
| x86_64 | |
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: f4a6b0f3b88d470599e01b843dab18859e86f3a73e58fe93d64ddd431ffa45d5 |
| virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 98f90d8e797d26d017aee2ad9f26ff2d0a3d07e1db96b736abd0640c4a514185 |
| i386 | |
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.i686.rpm | SHA-256: b53784751190a6812a736ba5ac859eca29c7504552a020b1543868c803ef4dcb |
| virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.i686.rpm | SHA-256: e74a4bb0c759fe0bd6c3f129405c8aba2ba1bc7b5970ec06fa180f83b27c6f50 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6
| SRPM | |
|---|---|
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: e45fc44fef3c0b6236e202cb9b9224a856e29be0b3b840cd2217327314090f0d |
| x86_64 | |
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: f4a6b0f3b88d470599e01b843dab18859e86f3a73e58fe93d64ddd431ffa45d5 |
| virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 98f90d8e797d26d017aee2ad9f26ff2d0a3d07e1db96b736abd0640c4a514185 |
| i386 | |
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.i686.rpm | SHA-256: b53784751190a6812a736ba5ac859eca29c7504552a020b1543868c803ef4dcb |
| virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.i686.rpm | SHA-256: e74a4bb0c759fe0bd6c3f129405c8aba2ba1bc7b5970ec06fa180f83b27c6f50 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6
| SRPM | |
|---|---|
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: e45fc44fef3c0b6236e202cb9b9224a856e29be0b3b840cd2217327314090f0d |
| s390x | |
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 8a04f39cb31cd76cf772de0c832dc647d6341fb1f8cb8ca06b7b5e56db67d142 |
| virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 7c65d8dede82e5941fb1b1a762e588508e8996692436b64f1a25545605e053ad |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6
| SRPM | |
|---|---|
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: e45fc44fef3c0b6236e202cb9b9224a856e29be0b3b840cd2217327314090f0d |
| ppc64 | |
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.ppc64.rpm | SHA-256: 9ff2c4dd92ec838c85c10d8c5686a4ea16b802b7f978f04b2abce5cae92ce519 |
| virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.ppc64.rpm | SHA-256: cade3dec7af29c247c41d6cc3b28a5cf6f793d40ab43eb6c82efa586ed3a7e64 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6
| SRPM | |
|---|---|
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: e45fc44fef3c0b6236e202cb9b9224a856e29be0b3b840cd2217327314090f0d |
| x86_64 | |
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: f4a6b0f3b88d470599e01b843dab18859e86f3a73e58fe93d64ddd431ffa45d5 |
| virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 98f90d8e797d26d017aee2ad9f26ff2d0a3d07e1db96b736abd0640c4a514185 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6
| SRPM | |
|---|---|
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: e45fc44fef3c0b6236e202cb9b9224a856e29be0b3b840cd2217327314090f0d |
| x86_64 | |
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: f4a6b0f3b88d470599e01b843dab18859e86f3a73e58fe93d64ddd431ffa45d5 |
| virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 98f90d8e797d26d017aee2ad9f26ff2d0a3d07e1db96b736abd0640c4a514185 |
| i386 | |
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.i686.rpm | SHA-256: b53784751190a6812a736ba5ac859eca29c7504552a020b1543868c803ef4dcb |
| virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.i686.rpm | SHA-256: e74a4bb0c759fe0bd6c3f129405c8aba2ba1bc7b5970ec06fa180f83b27c6f50 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6
| SRPM | |
|---|---|
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: e45fc44fef3c0b6236e202cb9b9224a856e29be0b3b840cd2217327314090f0d |
| s390x | |
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 8a04f39cb31cd76cf772de0c832dc647d6341fb1f8cb8ca06b7b5e56db67d142 |
| virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 7c65d8dede82e5941fb1b1a762e588508e8996692436b64f1a25545605e053ad |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6
| SRPM | |
|---|---|
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: e45fc44fef3c0b6236e202cb9b9224a856e29be0b3b840cd2217327314090f0d |
| x86_64 | |
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: f4a6b0f3b88d470599e01b843dab18859e86f3a73e58fe93d64ddd431ffa45d5 |
| virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 98f90d8e797d26d017aee2ad9f26ff2d0a3d07e1db96b736abd0640c4a514185 |
| i386 | |
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.i686.rpm | SHA-256: b53784751190a6812a736ba5ac859eca29c7504552a020b1543868c803ef4dcb |
| virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.i686.rpm | SHA-256: e74a4bb0c759fe0bd6c3f129405c8aba2ba1bc7b5970ec06fa180f83b27c6f50 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6
| SRPM | |
|---|---|
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: e45fc44fef3c0b6236e202cb9b9224a856e29be0b3b840cd2217327314090f0d |
| s390x | |
| virt-what-1.3-4.4.el6.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 8a04f39cb31cd76cf772de0c832dc647d6341fb1f8cb8ca06b7b5e56db67d142 |
| virt-what-debuginfo-1.3-4.4.el6.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 7c65d8dede82e5941fb1b1a762e588508e8996692436b64f1a25545605e053ad |
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