RHEA-2014:1439 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

New hyperv-daemons packages are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The hyperv-daemons packages provide a suite of daemons that are needed when a
Linux guest is running on a Windows Host with HyperV. The following daemons are
included:

• hypervkvpd, the guest Hyper-V Key-Value Pair (KVP) daemon.
• hypervvssd, the implementation of HyperV VSS functionality for Linux guest.
• hypervfcopyd, the implementation of file copy service functionality for Linux

Guest running on HyperV.

This enhancement update adds the hyperv-daemons packages to Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6. (BZ#977631, BZ#1107559)

All users who require hyperv-daemons are advised to install these new packages.
After installing the packages, rebooting all guest machines is recommended,
otherwise the Microsoft Windows server with Hyper-V will not be able to get
information from these guest machines. For more information about inclusion of,
and guest installation support for, Microsoft Hyper-V drivers, refer to the Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Release Notes.

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/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 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 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 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 Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 1116337 - [Hyper-V][REHL 6.6] service hypervvssd can not check status

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)