- Issued:
- 2013-05-28
- Updated:
- 2013-05-28
RHBA-2013:0867 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
rhev-guest-tools-iso bug fix 3.1.4 update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated rhev-guest-tools-iso package is available.
Description
The rhev-guest-tools-iso package contains tools and drivers. These tools
and drivers are required by supported Windows guest operating systems
when installed as guests on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
This rhev-guest-tools-iso package fixes the following bugs:
- Previously, a network driver from an older version of virtio-win caused
networking inconsistencies on Windows 2008R2 virtual machines. The network
interface card on the virtual machine sometimes could not connect to the
network, and only reconnected after the network was restarted. This version of
the Guest Tools includes the network driver from virtio-win 1.6.3 which resolves
this issue. (BZ#960969)
- The private key used for signing the Windows Guest Tools image had been
changed, and the corresponding public key had not been included in the
Application Provisioning Tool. As a result, the APT was unable to verify the
Guest Tools files, and failed to update. This has been fixed by including the
new public key in the APT, so the APT updates the Guest Tools as expected.
(BZ#962446)
- The sys.stdout.encoding option was set to 'none' when the rhevm-guest-agent
ran as a service on Windows virtual machines, so the guest agent did not report
data for Windows guests. This update adds the locale module which provides the
getpreferredencoding function, as a result the guest agent reports data as
expected. (BZ#963787)
All Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization users are advised to upgrade to this
updated rhev-guest-tools-iso package.
Solution
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. Follow the upgrade
procedure in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Installation Guide to
install these updated packages:
To install the updated guest tools on individual guests using the image provided
by the rhev-guest-tools-iso package refer to:
Affected Products
- Red Hat Virtualization 3.1 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 960969 - Virtio-win Net driver from rhev-guest-tools-iso-3.1-9.noarch.rpm causes network inconsistencies with networking.
- BZ - 963787 - [Windows Guest Tools] TypeError: encode() argument 1 must be string, not Non - 3.2.7 Guest Agent does not report data
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Virtualization 3.1
SRPM | |
---|---|
rhev-guest-tools-iso-3.1-12.src.rpm | SHA-256: e767e65b57faa251dfbd8462d370c512ddf19e396924be504dfc9889a0a07b88 |
x86_64 | |
rhev-guest-tools-iso-3.1-12.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 9f36dc9353d55a31a85119d2a7e8f3cb01ef36c94b252a32b4d463ee88d8eeae |
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