RHEA-2017:3174 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. In addition, libvirt provides tools for remote management of virtualized systems.

This enhancement update adds the libvirt 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 - 1435681 - <console><log> doesn't work on aarch64
• BZ - 1460008 - useless errmsg when USB kbd capability is missing from QEMU, but the domain XML wants a USB kbd
• BZ - 1464098 - libvirt-daemon-kvm on aarch64 (and maybe power) should depend on qemu-kvm
• BZ - 1473706 - RHEL7.4: virDomainGetBlockInfo always returns alloc=0 on block storage
• BZ - 1474327 - libvirt support for "numa_node" QEMU -device spapr-pci-host-bridge option

CVEs

(none)

References

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