RHEA-2021:4341 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

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

Description

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension 8.8 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 Extension 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1802466 - [virtio-win][vioser]Data transfer failed between host and guest via serial port after install vioser driver on Win2012 guest
• BZ - 1826336 - [Microsoft driver security checklist] Manage driver access control for virtio-win drivers
• BZ - 1867599 - virtio-win: Enable SVVP testing based on HCK-CI framework
• BZ - 1898488 - [virtio-win][pvpanic] Test the support of the PVPANIC_CRASHLOADED
• BZ - 1925144 - [virtio-fs][RFE] Add a support for symbolic links
• BZ - 1934492 - Filesystem freeze on Windows reports errors frequently [rhel-8.5.0]
• BZ - 1934497 - Can not get the disks of windows guest via guest agent [rhel-8.5.0]
• BZ - 1935246 - fix qemu-ga-win resource leaks [rhel-8.5.0]
• BZ - 1935249 - Some changes of qga command "get-devices" should be fix on mingw-qemu-ga-win to qemu 5.2 [rhel-8.5.0]
• BZ - 1935250 - Rebase mingw-qemu-ga-win to qemu 5.2 [rhel-8.5.0]
• BZ - 1957377 - Downstream qemu-ga should report the build number and not QEMU version
• BZ - 1958825 - Memory leak in qemu-ga for Windows
• BZ - 1970275 - virtio-win RPM for 8.4z [rhel-8.5.0]
• BZ - 1973022 - [virtio-win][whql test] 'NICStrictPropertyValidation' on Win2022 failed
• BZ - 1978122 - [virtio-win][virtio-fs] Hit error when renaming files/folders on shared dir(nfs mount)
• BZ - 1978859 - The qemu-ga-win build version in MSI is different between checking inside guest and qga command.
• BZ - 1979022 - [virtio-win][whql test] 'NICStrictPropertyValidation' on Win2022 failed - *JumboPacket standard parameter validation failure
• BZ - 1979023 - [virtio-win][whql test] 'NICStrictPropertyValidation' on Win2022 failed - *NumRssQueues standard parameter validation failure
• BZ - 1979024 - [virtio-win][whql test] 'NICStrictPropertyValidation' on Win2022 failed - VLAN related failures
• BZ - 1979205 - [virtio-win][viostor] windows guest can not boot with indirect_desc=off
• BZ - 1981302 - QGA version can't be upgrade directly without uninstalling old version

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.5_release_notes/index