RHEA-2017:3169 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm package provides the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.

This enhancement update adds the qemu-kvm packages to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for ARM and for IBM Power LE (POWER9).

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the 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 for ARM 64 7 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1429856 - [Pegas 1.0] Rebase qemu-kvm for Pegas 1.0
• BZ - 1450724 - [Pegas 1.0] qemu package scripts should not disable host multi-threading for POWER9
• BZ - 1454281 - Enable vm.allocate_pgste sysctl before running qemu-kvm on s390x
• BZ - 1459170 - SLOF: Can't boot from virtio-scsi disk behind pci-bridge: E3405: No such device
• BZ - 1460010 - USB HID (keyboard and tablet) missing [aarch64]
• BZ - 1460908 - qemu-kvm: POWER9 CPU model not usable on POWER9 machine
• BZ - 1465048 - AArch64: Add pci-testdev
• BZ - 1470035 - [qmp] Load internal snapshot failed on Power9
• BZ - 1470558 - [qmp] qemu-kvm process aborted after issuing QMP 'memsave' command on Power9
• BZ - 1475751 - migration/RDMA: backport fixes
• BZ - 1476181 - qemu core dumped after hotplug one cpu core with a negative core id

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/articles/3158541
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/3158511