RHEA-2011:1556 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An updated virt-what package that fixes several bugs and adds various
enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The virt-what package provides a command line tool that is used to detect
whether the operating system is running inside a virtual machine.

The virt-what package has been upgraded to upstream version 1.11, which provides
a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#672211)

In addition, this updated virt-what package fixes the following bug:

• On the 64-bit x86 architecture, if the user configured a CPU model for the

virtual machine, the virt-what utility failed to detect that the guest was
running inside a virtual machine. The order of tests has been rearranged, fixing
the problem. (BZ#707524)

Users of virt-what are advised to upgrade to this updated package which fixes
these bugs and adds these enhancements.

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 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 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 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 - 672211 - Rebase virt-what in RHEL 6.2
• BZ - 707524 - virt-what not detecting kvm guests because cpu model does not contain 'QEMU' string
• BZ - 708505 - fails to build without downstream patches

CVEs

(none)

References

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