RHEA-2011:1823 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

New rhevm-spice-client packages are now available.

Description

An updated rhevm-spice-client package that fixes numerous bugs and adds
enhancements is now available.

The rhevm-spice-client package fixes numerous bugs and adds enhancements. It
contains the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization-related SPICE software that
improves connectivity and local hardware support. Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager can use SPICE to access VMs. These SPICE client rpm
packages provide windows spice client for both 32-bit and 64-bit operating
machines, and for both User (cab) and Admin (msi) portals.

RPM names are in the following format:
rhevm-spice-client-{x86,x64}-{msi,cab}-{version}-{release}.noarch.rpm

spice-client is based on upstream spice-0.8.

This package has been updated as part of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
3.0 release.

You can read more about the bug fixes and enhancements that are included in this
package in the Technical Notes for this release:
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.0/html/Technical_Notes/index.html

All Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization users who use Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager 3.0 to access VMs using SPICE are advised to install
these packages.

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
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Virtualization 3 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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