RHEA-2011:1108 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Enhanced qemu-kvm packages are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux
on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems that is built into the standard Red Hat Enterprise
Linux kernel. The qemu-kvm packages form the user-space component for running
virtual machines using KVM.

These updated qemu-kvm packages add the following enhancement:

• Prior to this updated, a support statement in the text issued by the "qemu-kvm
• -help" command contained the following lines:

WARNING: Direct use of qemu-kvm from the command line is unsupported.
WARNING: Only use via libvirt.
WARNING: Some options listed here may not be available in future releases.

With this update, this support statement has been modified to be more accurate,
and it no longer claims that direct use of this command from the command line is
unsupported: using qemu-kvm from the command line is just not recommended.
Instead, Red Hat recommends using the libvirt tool as the stable management
interface. (BZ#725543)

Users of qemu-kvm may want to upgrade to these updated packages, which add this
enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the 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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• 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 - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance (from RHUI) 6.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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