RHEA-2013:0484 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

New hypervkvpd packages are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The hypervkvpd packages contain hypervkvpd, the guest Hyper-V Key-Value Pair
(KVP) daemon. Using VMbus, hypervkvpd passes basic information to the host. The
information includes guest IP address, fully qualified domain name, operating
system name, and operating system release number. An IP injection functionality
is also provided which allows you to change the IP address of a guest from the
host via the hypervkvpd daemon.

This enhancement update adds the hypervkvpd packages to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6. For more information about inclusion of, and guest installation support for,
Microsoft Hyper-V drivers, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Release
Notes. (BZ#850674)

All users who require hypervkvpd are advised to install these new packages.

After installing the hypervkvpd packages, rebooting all guest machines is
recommended, otherwise the Microsoft Windows server with Hyper-V might not be
able to get information from these guest machines.

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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• 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 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 Workstation 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 890301 - [hypervkvpd] Denied read/write when injecting IP to RHEL6.4 guest from Hyper-V Server 2012

CVEs

(none)

References

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