- Issued:
- 2018-05-15
- Updated:
- 2018-05-15
RHEA-2018:1517 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
rhv-guest-tools bug fix and enhancement update
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
Updated rhv-guest-tools packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available.
Description
The rhv-guest-tools-iso package contains tools and drivers that are required by supported Windows guest operating systems when installed as guests on Red Hat Virtualization.
Changes to the rhev-guest-tools component:
- The guest tools ISO now includes spice-qxl-wddm-dod and the latest spice-vdagent. (BZ#1465106)
- The rhev-guest-tools-iso package is now named rhv-guest-tools-iso. Also, the ISO filenames were modified to match the re-branding. (BZ#1365834)
- In the current release, the Balloon service, which provides usage information, is installed and enabled in the host by default, wherever the Balloon driver is installed. (BZ#1500579)
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:
Affected Products
- Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.2 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1365834 - [RFE] - Rename RHEV Windows guest tools to RHV branding
- BZ - 1465106 - [RFE] Please add spice-qxl-wddm-dod and latest spice-vdagent to RHV-M guest tools iso
- BZ - 1482455 - [Placeholder] Build Windows Guest Tools for RHV 4.2
- BZ - 1497322 - Balloon service is not enabled not reported on Windows 2016
- BZ - 1500268 - Call RegFlushKey after installing Windows guest drivers, since driver is uninstalled after triggering BSOD
- BZ - 1500579 - [RFE] Balloon service should be installed
- BZ - 1545297 - Update of RHEV-tools does not install qxl-dod driver for Win10
- BZ - 1567217 - virtio-drivers on guest-tools iso are older than drivers from virtio-win iso
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.2
SRPM | |
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rhv-guest-tools-iso-4.2-5.el7ev.src.rpm | SHA-256: 242a8d2db4b5edd713907d8080de1717cdd262f06662ea1e75af927c145a1d55 |
x86_64 | |
rhv-guest-tools-iso-4.2-5.el7ev.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 85aa4a2914df69e878c17f36935f343bfd4dfda837fca77757a9d69920f7d099 |
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