Issued:
2017-08-01
Updated:
2017-08-01

RHEA-2017:2056 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Synopsis

new packages: OVMF

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

New OVMF packages are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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 update adds the OVMF packages to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

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 Server - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1373812 - guest boot from network even set 'boot order=1' for virtio disk with OVMF
  • BZ - 1412313 - select broadcast SMI if available
  • BZ - 1442908 - Guest hang when running a wrong command in Uefishell
  • BZ - 1443351 - [svvp][ovmf] job "Secure Boot Logo Test" failed with q35&ovmf

CVEs

(none)

References

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7

SRPM
ovmf-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: eb3aa98d2c1536e3c0f7a67adb8dce73cb6515cd380a7f6ef6d8a884a82ef253
x86_64
OVMF-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: c03e71261f642abf9c421446d982133292cca0d69b45ca55f201728539297a77

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.6

SRPM
ovmf-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: eb3aa98d2c1536e3c0f7a67adb8dce73cb6515cd380a7f6ef6d8a884a82ef253
x86_64
OVMF-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: c03e71261f642abf9c421446d982133292cca0d69b45ca55f201728539297a77

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.5

SRPM
ovmf-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: eb3aa98d2c1536e3c0f7a67adb8dce73cb6515cd380a7f6ef6d8a884a82ef253
x86_64
OVMF-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: c03e71261f642abf9c421446d982133292cca0d69b45ca55f201728539297a77

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.4

SRPM
ovmf-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: eb3aa98d2c1536e3c0f7a67adb8dce73cb6515cd380a7f6ef6d8a884a82ef253
x86_64
OVMF-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: c03e71261f642abf9c421446d982133292cca0d69b45ca55f201728539297a77

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6

SRPM
ovmf-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: eb3aa98d2c1536e3c0f7a67adb8dce73cb6515cd380a7f6ef6d8a884a82ef253
x86_64
OVMF-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: c03e71261f642abf9c421446d982133292cca0d69b45ca55f201728539297a77

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4

SRPM
ovmf-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: eb3aa98d2c1536e3c0f7a67adb8dce73cb6515cd380a7f6ef6d8a884a82ef253
x86_64
OVMF-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: c03e71261f642abf9c421446d982133292cca0d69b45ca55f201728539297a77

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6

SRPM
ovmf-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: eb3aa98d2c1536e3c0f7a67adb8dce73cb6515cd380a7f6ef6d8a884a82ef253
x86_64
OVMF-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: c03e71261f642abf9c421446d982133292cca0d69b45ca55f201728539297a77

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6

SRPM
ovmf-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: eb3aa98d2c1536e3c0f7a67adb8dce73cb6515cd380a7f6ef6d8a884a82ef253
x86_64
OVMF-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: c03e71261f642abf9c421446d982133292cca0d69b45ca55f201728539297a77

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4

SRPM
ovmf-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: eb3aa98d2c1536e3c0f7a67adb8dce73cb6515cd380a7f6ef6d8a884a82ef253
x86_64
OVMF-20170228-5.gitc325e41585e3.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: c03e71261f642abf9c421446d982133292cca0d69b45ca55f201728539297a77

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