RHEA-2018:1531 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new spice-qxl-wddm-dod package that contains the Spice QXL WDDM Display Only Driver is now available.

Description

The spice-qxl-wddm-dod package contains a display-only-driver (DOD) for the QXL (virtual) device that can be installed on Windows 10 virtual machines. SPICE is a remote display protocol designed for virtual environments, which enables you to view a virtualized desktop or server. QXL is a paravirtualized display driver that reduces CPU usage on the host and provides better performance through reduced network bandwidth on most workloads.

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/2974891

Affected Products

• Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization Host 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 4 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 895356 - [RFE] Spice: WDDM Display Only Driver for windows 10+
• BZ - 1444080 - Unable to attach additional display from client side
• BZ - 1444429 - Cannot get arbitrary display resolution

CVEs

(none)

References

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