Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2019:1997 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Issued:
2019-07-30
Updated:
2019-07-30

RHEA-2019:1997 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Synopsis

virtio-win bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

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Topic

An update for virtio-win is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Description

The virtio-win package provides paravirtualized network drivers for most Microsoft Windows operating systems. Paravirtualized drivers are virtualization-aware drivers used by fully virtualized guests running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Fully virtualized guests using the paravirtualized drivers gain significantly better I/O performance than fully virtualized guests running without the drivers.

Users of virtio-win are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1223668 - [RFE] add a directory structure allowing windows automatically finding drivers
  • BZ - 1428641 - [virtio-win][viostor]Windows guest's physical block size change to "512" after installation with the size "4096"
  • BZ - 1517107 - [q35] guest NIC interface still exists after hotunplug virtio-net-pci device
  • BZ - 1537430 - [NetKVM] Support setting link speed and duplex settings from QEMU
  • BZ - 1656266 - [virtio-win][balloon] balloon device hot-unplug fail if balloon service is running
  • BZ - 1666940 - [virtio-win][netkvm] cannot get valid ip when boot guest with "vectors=1"
  • BZ - 1672541 - virtio-win drivers build with Visual Studio 2017
  • BZ - 1691209 - [virtio-win][netkvm+viostor]Job ”Static Tools Logo Test“ failed with build 169
  • BZ - 1694509 - Update license of virtio-win
  • BZ - 1702888 - [virtio-win][whql][netkvm]Job StandardizedKeywords failed on Win1032/64-1903
  • BZ - 1716248 - [virtio-win][netkvm] can not ping out when boot with "queues=4,vectors=5/6/7/8" on win7 and win2008r2

CVEs

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8

SRPM
x86_64
virtio-win-1.9.8-6.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 38ec008ffa9ed1ef73470fe6d4d89fbf9f5e77e03968600e0b789dd112bacb7d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8

SRPM
x86_64
virtio-win-1.9.8-6.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 38ec008ffa9ed1ef73470fe6d4d89fbf9f5e77e03968600e0b789dd112bacb7d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6

SRPM
x86_64
virtio-win-1.9.8-6.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 38ec008ffa9ed1ef73470fe6d4d89fbf9f5e77e03968600e0b789dd112bacb7d

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