Synopsis

spice-vdagent enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated spice-vdagent packages that add various enhancements are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The spice-vdagent packages provide a SPICE agent for Linux guests.

The spice-vdagent packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.12.0, which
provides a number of enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#842355)

This update adds the following enhancements:

• The spice-vdagent agent now uses the syslog standard for logging. Syslog
  provides previously missing information on time stamps and severity marks of the
  logged events. (BZ#747894)
  
• With this update, support for dynamic multiple monitors and arbitrary window
  resolution has been added to the spice-vdagent agent. (BZ#842298)
  

All users of spice-vdagent are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which add these enhancements.

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/knowledge/articles/11258

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 Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 747894 - RFE: add time stamps and severity marks to vdagent log
• BZ - 842298 - RFE: linux vdagent dynamic monitors support
• BZ - 842355 - Rebase spice-vdagent to latest upstream
• BZ - 855110 - Offset between mouse pointer and cursor when guest has two qxl devices emulated.
• BZ - 872633 - Vdagent stops when first resizing a window
• BZ - 888821 - resolution is switched to wrong one automagically (sometimes but frequently)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
spice-vdagent-0.12.0-4.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 830df4e2373d3c73d36a1e6b82070d325d282425f590c9514c705618aba08a10
x86_64
spice-vdagent-0.12.0-4.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 4b84787a69ad22b2b4d5cedc2b0638697f92e96d962fad300e4a0d1a5e7751a6
spice-vdagent-debuginfo-0.12.0-4.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 6d18887aa29a4caeb1379b112f273f6b74aa43bd0dc1ac26870d09f673f6397f
i386
spice-vdagent-0.12.0-4.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 53fbeef2eee27d2184c11c6386b628d3f4f3e09c72100e2d9c231f3ba59a7b0d
spice-vdagent-debuginfo-0.12.0-4.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 5577a1d603fec897c53f954ed58cccd0feff10e5dfdea4d19feac3108a36e777

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
spice-vdagent-0.12.0-4.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 830df4e2373d3c73d36a1e6b82070d325d282425f590c9514c705618aba08a10
x86_64
spice-vdagent-0.12.0-4.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 4b84787a69ad22b2b4d5cedc2b0638697f92e96d962fad300e4a0d1a5e7751a6
spice-vdagent-debuginfo-0.12.0-4.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 6d18887aa29a4caeb1379b112f273f6b74aa43bd0dc1ac26870d09f673f6397f
i386
spice-vdagent-0.12.0-4.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 53fbeef2eee27d2184c11c6386b628d3f4f3e09c72100e2d9c231f3ba59a7b0d
spice-vdagent-debuginfo-0.12.0-4.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 5577a1d603fec897c53f954ed58cccd0feff10e5dfdea4d19feac3108a36e777

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
spice-vdagent-0.12.0-4.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 830df4e2373d3c73d36a1e6b82070d325d282425f590c9514c705618aba08a10
x86_64
spice-vdagent-0.12.0-4.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 4b84787a69ad22b2b4d5cedc2b0638697f92e96d962fad300e4a0d1a5e7751a6
spice-vdagent-debuginfo-0.12.0-4.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 6d18887aa29a4caeb1379b112f273f6b74aa43bd0dc1ac26870d09f673f6397f
i386
spice-vdagent-0.12.0-4.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 53fbeef2eee27d2184c11c6386b628d3f4f3e09c72100e2d9c231f3ba59a7b0d
spice-vdagent-debuginfo-0.12.0-4.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 5577a1d603fec897c53f954ed58cccd0feff10e5dfdea4d19feac3108a36e777

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
spice-vdagent-0.12.0-4.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 830df4e2373d3c73d36a1e6b82070d325d282425f590c9514c705618aba08a10
x86_64
spice-vdagent-0.12.0-4.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 4b84787a69ad22b2b4d5cedc2b0638697f92e96d962fad300e4a0d1a5e7751a6
spice-vdagent-debuginfo-0.12.0-4.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 6d18887aa29a4caeb1379b112f273f6b74aa43bd0dc1ac26870d09f673f6397f
i386
spice-vdagent-0.12.0-4.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 53fbeef2eee27d2184c11c6386b628d3f4f3e09c72100e2d9c231f3ba59a7b0d
spice-vdagent-debuginfo-0.12.0-4.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 5577a1d603fec897c53f954ed58cccd0feff10e5dfdea4d19feac3108a36e777