RHEA-2016:0377 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated rhevm-spice-client packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available

Description

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager provides access to virtual machines using SPICE. These SPICE client packages provide the SPICE client for both Windows 32-bit operating systems and Windows 64-bit operating systems.

A list of bugs fixed in this update is available in the Technical Notes book:

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.6/html-single/Technical_Notes/index.html

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 Virtualization 3.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 857087 - [RFE] when usbredir channel are available but usbclerk is not running (and usbdk is not installed), log warning and disable USB
• BZ - 975835 - [RFE] Foreign Menu Using REST
• BZ - 1022608 - After switching from full-screen using Shift-F11, arbitrary resolution doesn't work
• BZ - 1055600 - Shortcuts missing from "Send key" menu when started using plugin
• BZ - 1065936 - [RFE] remote-viewer should support proxy authentication and ask for credentials if required
• BZ - 1099327 - fail to redirect USB to VM running on rhel7 with grayed 'USB device selection' button when redirect it from win7-sp1-x64bit without qxl specified
• BZ - 1135105 - Should send data message for file copy of 0 size
• BZ - 1136846 - Cannot control Win7 guest sound volume using guest volume controller
• BZ - 1144043 - after plug/redirection of usb device, virt-viewer freezes for several seconds before the device gets redirected
• BZ - 1155764 - always fullscreen for SPICE-xpi
• BZ - 1161081 - copy/paste images does not work -- images are truncated
• BZ - 1169286 - Incorrect shift key behaviour
• BZ - 1171717 - SPICE ActiveX plugin crashes when menu is longer than 4096 B
• BZ - 1181289 - Rebase virt-viewer to latest upstream release
• BZ - 1200103 - [RFE] Add minimum version check to rhev spice-client
• BZ - 1201387 - remote-viewer freezes temporarily with high memory consumption when working with isochronous devices (webcam, headset)
• BZ - 1202371 - [RFE] Add UsbDk to RHEV 3.6 distribution
• BZ - 1205804 - After resizing virt-viewer window bigger than screen size, window gets resized back to screen size, and content scaled down
• BZ - 1233422 - Add ability for user to configure which guest monitors are used in fullscreen mode
• BZ - 1242600 - connecting to VM changes its resolution
• BZ - 1244869 - High Resolution Multi-Monitor Windows Guest freeze
• BZ - 1244880 - Windows needs to send complete monitors_config message to client
• BZ - 1247927 - Cannot enable display 1 when it was disabled in previous session
• BZ - 1273977 - Remote-viewer crash after login to VM
• BZ - 1275343 - remote-viewer -f option doesn't work well after last leaving with enable display1,3
• BZ - 1278016 - mingw-virt-viewer: Monitor mapping doesn't properly adjust resolutions

CVEs

(none)

References

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