libvirt bug fix and enhancement update

Updated libvirt packages that upgrade the libvirt library to upstream
version 0.8.7, fix a number of bugs, and add various enhancements and
new features are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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

These updated packages upgrade the libvirt library for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6 to upstream version 0.8.7, which contains many
enhancements and bug fixes over the previous version. Further
details are provided in the Technical Notes:

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.1_Technical_Notes/index.html#libvirt

All users of libvirt are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which correct these issues and provide these enhancements.

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

515692 - RFE: Use cgroups to enforce host RAM limit according to current memory balloon allocation
586124 - RFE: support IPv6 on virtual networks
589863 - Enable 'autostart' doesn't take effect actually
591703 - RFE: libvirt XML should allow to specify AIO mode
595350 - DOCS: /usr/sbin/libvirtd does not have a man page
596100 - device hotplug/update changes are not transient
602277 - Can 'virsh edit' append a '.xml' suffix to tempfile edited by vim?
605543 - virsh pool-list and vol-list commands could be improved to show more details
609463 - MAC address of virtual network bridge changes when TAP devices are added/removed
611443 - User can not delete the volume in a pool built on a mapper device.
611793 - Static only DHCP not supported in network configs.
611822 - libvirtd produces potentially misleading advice in error output for TLS failure
617439 - DOCS: virsh help: network can't be destroyed and dumped xml via id
622534 - DOCS: Documentation changes describing virsh operations on inactive guests
623166 - libvirtd daemon core dumps not working
624252 - Remote driver is not flushing event stream correctly, resulting in delayed event notification to applications
624403 - [vdsm] [libvirt] unexpected signal message produced (log) on the various operations
624507 - Network filter driver not handling driver reload (SIGHUP) correctly
625315 - Migrate fail with error "internal error unable to execute QEMU command 'migrate_set_speed' "
625859 - /etc/sysconfig/libvirt-guests has wrong permissions
626305 - [vdsm] [libvirt] RFE - libvirt should allow user to ask for force eject
626873 - pool creation fails if directory includes a broken symlink
627125 - RFE: attach-interface should allow to specify model type of virtual network interface
627143 - can't successfully start guest with a hot-plugging disk after stopping
628772 - Transient update device not take off effect after guest restart
628940 - libvirt should provide a way to pass through human monitor commands for debuging
629662 - RFE: Need support for virtio-net tuning option
630089 - RFE: Support p9fs virtual filesystem configuration
632750 - RFE: support for 802.1Qbg pre-associate request
632756 - RFE: Integration of misc upstream bugfixes to nwfilter code
633326 - Fails to reject unsupported graphics type such as 'sdl'
635353 - Break migration during migrating, VM cannot be operated on target host
635419 - RFE: Allow enable/disable ksm per VM
636349 - libvirt-0.8.4 fails to start VMs after upgrade
636483 - bug appearing on big endian systems makes nwfilter testcase fail
638285 - [libvirt] libvirt crash on multiple migration [Segmentation fault]
638968 - [6.0] 'virsh start' succeeds even if an invalid serial type is specified in an xml file
639587 - virsh freecell' prints the available amount of memory even if an invalid cellno is specified.
639595 - virsh reports an improper message when virt-domjobabort is run.
639603 - Unable to locate #virt-mem ( Documentation Bug)
640202 - [libvirt] [logs] libvirt logs should be improved
641187 - Any value that is out of range of cpu_shares can be specified.
643050 - RFE: control vhost-net on/off status
646895 - RFE: Explicit per-device ordering for bootable devices.
647058 - [abrt] libvirt-0.8.1-13.el6: virJSONValueObjectGet: Process /usr/sbin/libvirtd was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
647684 - (Documentation bug) : Documentation not available for #virsh commands
648486 - Provide to users some modern sound device like Intel HDA
649523 - bogus permissions on /var/lib/libvirt in libvirt spec file
652002 - libvirt rpm fails to build if libxenserver 5.6.0 is installed
652730 - Never forgets iscsi sessions & silently logs back in upon network activation
653293 - virsh vcpuinfo' doesn't report the number of CPU core of 'CPU Affinity' correctly on host with NUMA
653300 - Incorrect virtual network xml file cause libvirt crash.
653530 - virsh freecell does not offer a way to list free memory per node
653985 - libvirt need to be rebased in RHEL-6.1
655062 - use --dhcp-no-override option when using tftp
656248 - Support Westmere as a CPU model or included within existing models..
656795 - Start and shutdown domain lead to memory leak
656845 - [libvirt] kill qemu process using 'kill' behaves as user shutdown command and not as 'lost connection with qemu process'
658657 - libvirtd should use selabel_open rather than matchpathcon
659310 - [libvirt] deadlock on concurrent multiple bidirectional migration
659855 - libvirt crash on src/util/util.c in __virExec
660194 - clock offset='variable' not working correctly
660706 - do not start libvirt-guests on upgrade
661986 - with unsupported RDP graphic framebufferset kvm guest still start happily without error prompt
662245 - [Cisco 6.1 feat] libvirt 802.1Qbh: Add support for IFLA_VF_MAC
664406 - qemu process is spawned with no supplementary groups
665293 - RFE: Allow setting size of send buffer per TAP device in QEMU driver
665446 - libvirt virsh nodedev-dumpxml doesn't show SR-IOV details
666158 - domain suspension followed by two conflicting events
667091 - IB700 watchdog isn't PCI
667756 - [rhel6] [libvirt] unable to restore vm after hibernate when selinux is on (libvirtError: cannot close file: Bad file descriptor)
669069 - virsh memtune command displays bogus large values instead of indicating "unlimited"
670278 - guest system is paused after reboot
670399 - Libvirt should report an error when qemu-kvm doesn't support 'per-device boot order'
670529 - LVM storage pool creates smaller-than-expected volume
670848 - [Libvirt] Libvirt daemon crashes on virDomainDefFree at conf/domain_conf.c:793
671050 - Libvirt hot unplug the 1st guest nic silently when not specifying --mac
671319 - Improper error message for unsupported graphics type such as 'rdp', 'desktop'
671564 - libvirtd crash when exceeding 30 VMs
671567 - race condition in libvirt could lead to crash on event handling
672199 - Tunnelled migration failed with error 'internal error unknown migration protocol'
672226 - virDomainCreateXML over remote driver sometimes hangs
672449 - virsh managedsave shutoff guest cannot resolve symlink /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save/guest.save
672725 - libvirt double-close bug in tight loop of save/restore [6.1]
673226 - Imprint libvirt logs with version number & RPM build details
673434 - Fix problems with p2p migrations
673588 - libvirt can deadlock from double-closing qemu monitors
674602 - [libvirt] [scale] increase ulimit depending on # of qemu running
675030 - misleading error message from libvirt on bad xml
675698 - libvirt dies a quickly - udevGetSCSIType:753 : Failed to find SCSI device type 12
676374 - cannot set spice's passwdValidTo
676563 - libvirtd refuses to start after an ancient qemu package is installed
676686 - virsh attach-interface regression
676908 - libvirt can't snapshot guest with space in name
676984 - Failed to create encryption volume as /usr/bin/qemu-img argument is changed
677231 - virsh vol-list only displays one of the multipath
677308 - missing > in the xml generated by libvirt for smartcard
677484 - virDomainMemoryStats can crash client
677493 - domxml-from-native can crash libvirtd
677547 - Virsh save a shutoff guest get 'error: cannot resolve symlink'
677709 - libvirt: Accessing incorrect union field when setting up SPICE password causes crash
677729 - Random failures starting a guest with VEPA
678139 - Request for inclusion of nwfilter patch [13e9ba7c2b83e2c4fb74c17a885ffa8722137554]
678826 - [Cisco 6.1] libvirt 802.1Qbh: Delay IFF_UP'ing interface until migration final stage
678833 - virsh --quiet option doesn't work with snapshot-list command together
678870 - don't overwrite useful error message with "failed to parse XML"
679153 - virt-pki-validate has missing dependency
679164 - memory bugs in libvirt
680190 - unable to set swap_hard_limit tunable by virsh memtune
680281 - off-by-one in virFileAbsPath can lead to memory corruption
680398 - Sound device major number mistakenly added to cgroups ACL with VNC/SPICE graphics
681459 - [Libvirt] When shutting down VM's and restarting libvirtd, libvirtd crash when trying to start.
681492 - virsh start guest got "Out of space while reading console log output" errors
681948 - Request for inclusion of nwfilter patch [912d170f87b3d147bfde987249a727f7a7c7f1d7]
682249 - more memory bugs in libvirt
682741 - error: Failed to disconnect from the hypervisor, 1 leaked reference(s)
684655 - virsh doesnt work as an unprivileged user
684712 - Creating a storage pool with unsupported format type makes libvirtd dead
684870 - [Cisco 6.1 Bug Fix] libvirt 802.1Qbh: Add support for PREASSOCIATE_RR
687291 - dnsmasq not started for networks with no dhcp range and no static hosts
687551 - Defining multiple libvirt networks causes dnsmasq to hit DHCP lease max prematurely
687896 - libvirt fails to setup dnsmasq to listen for DNS requests on IPv6 addresses
687993 - libvirt leaks a pci configfd file into qemu on pci hostdev hotplug failure
688723 - libvirtd crashes with poorly formatted command
688774 - libvirtd can hang or crash from reference counting bugs when qemu process dies
688957 - libvirt doesn't log an error if /usr/sbin/radvd doesn't exist
689001 - macvtap: nlComm function doesn't log certain errors, leading to "unspecified error" logs
689002 - guest with assigned nic got kernel panic when send system_reset signal in QEMU monitor
689030 - throw a better error if blkio cgroup controller is too old
689986 - Unable to seek to <int> in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<name of VM>.log
690022 - libvirt say radvd not installed but radvd is already installed when start network supporting ipv6
690183 - hotplug of usb hostdev can crash libvirt
690737 - libvirt tries to restore security label for the path passed to "save" even if saving fails.
691514 - [Libvirt] When starting multiple vms using vdsm (sasl-authentication) virDomainCreateXML does not return.
692998 - data loss if restoring libvirt domain encounters transient error
693385 - Libvirtd crashes or hangs when trying to reconnect qemu-kvm domain
693701 - SystemTAP tapset installed in wrong location
693963 - [6.1] regression - virsh freecell shouldn't require "--cellno"
696660 - crash in libvirtd during brDeleteTap

http://libvirt.org/news.html

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.1_Technical_Notes/index.html#libvirt

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