libvirt bug fix and enhancement update

Updated libvirt packages that fix multiple bugs and add various enhancements 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 remote management of virtualized systems.

These updated libvirt packages include numerous bug fixes and enhancements.
Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are
directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Technical Notes for information on
the most significant of these changes:

https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.2_Technical_Notes/libvirt.html#RHSA-2011-1513


All users of libvirt are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
provide numerous bug fixes and enhancements.

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

This update is available via 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

587276 - [LXC] can't connect to a OS container via console, and print any key expect "CTRL + ]" will make the container shutoff
589922 - permission denied error for NFS image, should libvirt error message mention virt_use_nfs?
590807 - libvirt: getvcpu errors logged to /var/log/messages when virt-manager starts
591058 - [LXC] the minimum limit of setmem need be improved.
591974 - RFE: seamless SPICE migration does not work with TUNNELLED flag
592170 - [LXC] The related process still exist after os container has been shutdown.
603039 - Reattach a pci device which is using by guest to host output wrong info
607526 - [LXC] Can not connect to fedora guest in LXC
609650 - Improve SCSI/ISCSI storage pools key and name field formats
611442 - Unclear error message is seen when try to start a pool with a non-existent source path.
632760 - RFE: Support for network QoS
639591 - A value of cpu_shares can't be set by virsh correctly.
643947 - RFE: Support a logical network switch abstraction
658713 - virsh attach-disk --persistent unsupported on kvm
664629 - Can't start guest with "disallow-dhcp-server" network filter
667620 - libvirt: adapt to spice qmp event changes
667624 - libvirt: adapt to set password monitor command changes
667631 - libvirt: spice client migration monitor command update
669586 - No expected error prompt when compress guest core dump to invalid format
673814 - [RFE] Add external API to change migration speed
674537 - Restarting libvirtd resets current snapshot
677220 - Live migration with non-shared storage for kvm
678027 - libvirtd: error: udevGetDMIData:1489 : Failed to get udev device for syspath ...
678548 - Replace exec: migration with fd: migration for domain save
679668 - virsh dommemstat returns a empty result
682121 - virsh help iface-name bug on Japanese Environment
682237 - Add support for configuring Spice compression options
682953 - terminate migration with ctrl-c; migrating the same guest again fails
683005 - libvirt ignores disk target parameter
684848 - virsh connect URI mistakenly tries to open default connection
688859 - no "shutdown" operation of daemon hook script is called when the libvirt daemon is restarted at first time
689388 - connect with UNIX sockets will ignore "server" part
689416 - Storage driver should flush host cache after cloning volumes to avoid possible data loss
689761 - (null) in generated '-chardev udp' line if XML omits parameters
690175 - [Libvirt][qemu-kvm] Split-brain when migrating vm and restarting libvirtd.
691830 - RFE: Add console screenshot support
692355 - Unable to add graphics console device after installing with --nographics option by virt-install
692663 - [Libvirt] Libvirtd hangs when qemu processes are unresponsive
692745 - RFE: Enhance the amount of debug available from libvirt in case of crash
693203 - Avoid virsh list hang when qemu becomes unresponsive
693661 - RFE: Add support for spice disable-copy-paste option
694382 - bridges created by libvirtd fail to start when the bridge device name is > 11 characters
694516 - [6.2 FEAT] Event logging framework for libvirt
695653 - [patch] Implement BOOT_TIMEOUT
696596 - tight loop of attach-device/detach-device fails because libvirt not using drive_del correctly
697650 - on disk xml should warn that it is autogenerated
697742 - libvirt: remove managedsave data when a domain is undefined
697841 - --verbose does not work well with tunnelled migration
698071 - Failed to start lxc guest with 'Unknown failure'
698133 - valid host subject is not passed to the spice-client during migration
698197 - 'Out of memory' error from libvirt on bad xml
698208 - libvirtd cannot start on s390x machine
698340 - [RFE] Add support for setting IOeventFD for virtio block
698490 - [6.1] The options of virsh dump are not checked properly.
698861 - starting domain leaks memory
699847 - [RHEL 6.1] "man virsh" says that "URI" is optional in connect option.
701305 - [RHEL 6] 'Mpath Storage Pool' refresh issues with libvirt.
701394 - [RFE] libvirt should report the elapsed time waiting for a response from a qemu process
702044 - Can't attach iso from readonly filesystem to VM because it can't be chowned
702411 - libvirt fails to save VM into NFS - "Unknown error 255"
703851 - LIBVIRT [RFE] [displayNetwork]- There should be a method to specify a symbolic network name, to be evaluated to IP on the destination host
704124 - [RFE] Allow read-only commands during qemu migration
704836 - Serial console is not disconnected automatically when a guest OS is shut down.
705405 - Libvirt: libvirt kills VM when SD connectivity is blocked on destination during VM migration
706869 - SR-IOV does not work, allegedly due to lack of ACS
706883 - libvirt virDomainMemoryPeek (memsave) command fails because of permissions problems on temporary file
706966 - python bindings free invalid pointers
707155 - Libvirt is taking 2.4G of memory after running 62 domains for 5 days
707173 - [Libvirt] virsh save changes file ownership while configured to dynamic_ownership=0
707212 - support connected paramater in set_password
707257 - libvirt fails to save VM into NFS
707439 - Video device can not be removed from guest
707530 - volDelete returns VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR if volume is still being allocated
707894 - [Libvirt] When restarting libvirtd just after creating a domain the new process is not properly tracked
709576 - lxc driver trys to connect to inactive domain's monitor.
710150 - Auditing of QEMU driver disk hotunplug events logs is missing and/or incorrect
710489 - RFE: Add support for taking screenshots of secondary monitors
711151 - libvirt regression with creating encrypted volume
711206 - [libvirt] [logs] null dereference while preparing libvirt logs
712050 - Hotplug disk fail with error: drive hotplug is not supported
713697 - Failed to load driver back after reattach node device
714752 - [Libvirt] virDomainSave should open destination file with O_DIRECT flag
715184 - when compiling libvirt src rpmball, it generates warning: 'ret' may be used uninitialized in 'qemuMonitorJSONAddDrive'
716393 - libvirtd crash/hang at virFDStreamEvent when qemu guest shuts down
716478 - Libvirt changes volume permissions when migrating to file
716826 - [libvirt] Cannot insert CD (update device) to VM when LIVE constant is not used in updateDeviceFlags command
716888 - RFE: Keep consistence between code and documentation on log level and usage
718143 - pool-define and pool-define-as ingores the --source-name and --source-format
719838 - error : virNetTLSContextLoadCredentials:162 : Unable to set x509 key and certificate
720269 - Convert KVM migration to use fd: instead of tcp: protocol
720889 - libvirt does not report error when attach device with wrong xml
721335 - Defects revealed by Coverity scan
721411 - [libvirt] When migrating domain libvirt start logging the error " virNetSocketReadWire:826 : Cannot recv data: Input/output error" ~8000 times a sec
722738 - Segmentation fault in _gnutls_string_resize
722748 - Segfault during peer2peer migration
722806 - virsh net-info command exists memory leak
722862 - [doc]confusion of iface-mac & iface-name in man page
723442 - connect to hypervisor with unconfigured tls/tcp connection reports wrong message
723447 - [libvirt] libvirtd (0.9.3-6) fails to start with rhevm's cert configured : 'cert_file="/etc/pki/vdsm/certs/vdsmcert.pem" # by vdsm'
723535 - pci-stub driver is lost after an attempt to boot a VM with a PCI device assigned to other VM
723811 - [libvirt] libvirt crash when running large number of domains and vdsm is restarted
723843 - [libvirt] virsh list produced segmentation fault when libvirtd is not running
723862 - "isolated" network is not actually isolated due to dns-tunneling via dnsmasq
725322 - memory leak when setting blkiotune weight value of guest
725673 - do not fail migration if destination does not see ejected cdrom
725702 - libvirtd should delete its UNIX domain sockets after remove libvirt package
725935 - memory leak when run virsh vol-path command
725950 - memory leak when run virsh vol-upload command
726304 - Error output for blkiotune command when set invalid weight number
726398 - libvirt-0.8.7-18.el6 doesn't correctly log failed hook scripts
726616 - View libvirt host lists via avahi failed using virt-manager
726650 - Pause a domain while being migrated will cause migration error
727047 - domjobabort works abnormal on libvirt-0.9.4-0rc2.el6
727071 - libvirtd crashes if client quits unexpectedly
727088 - Directory shouldn't be listed as type 'file' with vol-list command
727094 - Error return value and output for memtune command when use --min-guarantee option
727249 - managedsave can crash libvirt
727474 - creating libvirt storage pools fails for lvm volume groups with striped volumes
727502 - Error output for virsh blockjob/blockpull command
727982 - /var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.hostsfile lags behind changes
728153 - libvirtd returns wrong error msg when using service instead of initctl
728203 - PCI device can not be auto reassigned to host after detach with managed=yes
728428 - hotplug disk/device and then restart libvirtd, the disk/device will be attached permanently
728654 - libvirtd.conf error causes libvirtd to exit silently
728835 - lxc guest can not start
728992 - Libvirt broken large file support [6.2]
729198 - fix sasl session relocking intead of unlocking it
729567 - Out of memory when DNS resolving fails during migration
729714 - libvirt managedsave incompatible with transient domains
729874 - SSL spice session can't be kept during migration
729945 - nwfilter: tolerate disappearing interfaces while instantiating filter
730101 - console is not properly released in interactive virsh
730244 - libvirt error message should show the uri content but not (null)
730428 - libvirt lost SIGHUP reloading behavior
730600 - Bugfix: Check stdoutWatch before removing the handler.
730615 - avoid crash on process attach
730750 - libvirt error in restoring domain with corrupt managedsave image
730753 - support for seamless SPICE migration - botched patch in rhel 6.2 libvirt build
730909 - setting disk with error_policy=enospace will cause error when install guest
731157 - Libvirt connections leak File Descriptors in v0.9.3
731243 - Migration failed with unable to execute QEMU command 'getfd'
731579 - exiting console in interactive virsh causes subsequent commands to fail
731583 - garbled console in interactive virsh session
731584 - exiting the console during output causes subsequent commands to fail
731673 - virsh # start domain1 --console hang there at the third time
732893 - connect libvirt via qemu+tls failed
733499 - memory leak and bogus snapshot listing on failed libvirt snapshots
733529 - virsh snapshot-delete --children is broken
733597 - sending a bad keycode to guest can crash libvirt
733762 - problems with libvirt start and snapshot resume with paused domains
733806 - libvirt should reject snapshots of autodestroy domains
733998 - Migrate will fail with --tunnelled
735008 - memory leak on volume creation with non-existent backing file
735011 - virsh hang up with autodestroy domains after doing save operation fail
735441 - Incorrect hardcoded sector size in disk storage pool
735442 - Sanlock socket is incorrectly labelled for SELinux
735443 - Incorrect path length check on sanlock lockspace limits directory name length to 47 characters
735457 - libvirt should not leave stale snapshot metadata behind after domain disappears
735495 - virsh should have better snapshot support
735498 - libvirt undefine on running guest should allow transition from persistent to transient
735553 - libvirt should check for ABI compatibility of snapshots
735650 - memory leak on virNetTLSContextCheckCertificate and testTLSSessionInit
736214 - PCI device can not be reattach to host automatically if attach-device failed with "managed=yes"
736297 - Typo of virsh send-key.
736603 - [libvirt][domblkinfo] libvirtd crash on domblkinfo.
736682 - snapshot-create can not work
737010 - libvirtd crash when executing "virsh snapshot-create-as" command sometimes
737176 - SSH GSSAPI login broken
737881 - After issue "event-test.py qemu:///system", opening virt-viewer will kill service libvirtd
738095 - Need an xml switch to disable rombar of assigned devices
738314 - missing requirement of libvirt-lock-sanlock package
738388 - Unable to passthrough multifunction PCI devices to KVM guests
738411 - doc: typo errors on virsh help snapshot-create-as
738439 - missing functions on remote libvirt give wrong error
738534 - virt-sanlock-cleanup command doesn't work
738778 - libvirtd crash during restart if running guest has <filterref>
739518 - License incompatibility due to use of GPLv2-only sanlock library
739704 - Coverity found several mem leaks in libvirt
740168 - virsh send-key and qemu-monitor-command does not work
740478 - [Regression]no output when set character device type to pipe
740508 - [virsh command]The option --paused and --running belong to command save-image-define don't work.
740533 - Migration with --dname failed with error
740686 - virsh nodedev-* commands are undocumented
740899 - [qemu-kvm][scalability] qemu could not open disk error at 256 devices
741217 - KVM guest install fails with libvirtError: cannot send monitor command '{"execute":"query-balloon"}': Connection reset by peer
741337 - Client blocks indefinitely on virStream API
742277 - Daemon crashes during migration and dumpxml
742410 - Output need be improved for virsh snapshot-parent
742615 - libvirt snapshot revert should require force in some risky cases
742646 - libvirtd fails to start - Failed to find group record for name 'qemu'
743176 - bandwidth info in <portgroup> isn't used if forward mode='nat|route|bridge|none'
743817 - [libvirt][events] sometimes after migrating a large number of domains, Events does not arrive to the client side.
743843 - Deadlock if client sends an RPC message with unknown program
744071 - virsh snapshot-edit can't edit disk snapshots
744548 - Attaching to a nonexistent PID causes libvirtd to crash
744724 - virsh snapshot-edit allow to change snapshot name and create a new fake snapshot with the new name
745734 - Check for domain being active on successful job acquire
746075 - screenshot leaks pipe fd
747516 - Coverity scan revealed defects

https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.2_Technical_Notes/libvirt.html#RHSA-2011-1513

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