RHEA-2015:0293 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new OVMF package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary.

Description

OVMF (Open Virtual Machine Firmware) is a project to enable UEFI support for Virtual Machines. This package contains a sample 64-bit UEFI firmware for QEMU and KVM.

This enhancement update adds the OVMF packages to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, which enables the use an UEFI BIOS in KVM-QEMU. (BZ#653382)

All users who require OVMF are advised to install this new package.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1153927 - set NEXTBOOT to uefi setting failed from Windows Recovery console
• BZ - 1166027 - backport "OvmfPkg: AcpiPlatformDxe: make dependency on PCI enumeration explicit"
• BZ - 1166971 - virtio-scsi disks and cd-roms with nonzero LUN are rejected with errors

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal