- Issued:
- 2014-01-21
- Updated:
- 2014-01-21
RHBA-2014:0034 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
mingw-virt-viewer enhancement update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Topic
An updated mingw-virt-viewer package that adds multiple enhancements is now
available.
Description
The MinGW Windows virt-viewer console application implements, among other
things, the client side of SPICE protocol. This package contains the
remote-viewer executable, the next generation of spice-client.
A list of the bugs fixed in this update is available in the Technical Notes
book:
Administrators of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environments should install
this new package.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
To install or upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.3 refer to the
Installation Guide:
Affected Products
- Red Hat Virtualization 3.3 x86_64
- Red Hat Virtualization 3 for RHEL 6 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 846006 - [RFE] auto-add Hot Key combos to "Send key" menu
- BZ - 857038 - spice-x should be able to use already installed remote-viewer or usbclerk instance of different architecture
- BZ - 873272 - Don't grab mouse cursor on client --> server mouse mode switch
- BZ - 873341 - Keyboard input focus broken (mostly win key captured by both guest and client)
- BZ - 919166 - Two instances of virt-viewer running at the same time causes USB redir to misbehave.
- BZ - 951664 - Virt-viewer client video graphics stops during migration.
- BZ - 955279 - only one desktop effect to be disabled can be specified
- BZ - 958550 - Killing first virt-viewer display (Main display in Windows) of 4 will result in no functionality of remaining 3 virt-viewer windows.
- BZ - 963835 - virt-viewer with smartcard crashes in Enhanced Protected Mode of IE10
- BZ - 967154 - virt-viewer does not respect auto configuration of monitors
- BZ - 975472 - Windows virt-viewer should ignore trailing '/' for SpiceProxyDefault value
- BZ - 978362 - Application windows of virt-viewer are in "unreasonable" size after switching off from full-screen.
- BZ - 983111 - Rebase virt-viewer against 0.5.6
- BZ - 984136 - Provide MSI machine installer for client
- BZ - 985898 - Too many windows open with fullscreen=auto-conf
- BZ - 986027 - Alt+Tab key combo only recognized by Windows client
- BZ - 1000125 - [RFE] copy & paste: translate end of line sequences to target OS native ones
- BZ - 1002697 - Mouse pointer appears black on PuTTY terminals opened from windows 7 guests [mingw-virt-viewer]
- BZ - 1004440 - Allow to send Ctrl+Alt+Del using a keyboard shortcut
- BZ - 1014089 - MSI does not contain libsqlite3-0.dll
- BZ - 1017302 - mingw-virt-viewer crashes after 10+ MB plain text is copied to clipboard in the guest
- BZ - 1017909 - Without the "--full-screen=auto-conf" switch, when you "Exit Fullscreen," that closes all full-screens
- BZ - 1021618 - resolution set by user inside the VM gets reverted to client resolution when in full screen
- BZ - 1023447 - Keyboard shortcuts not working properly when started using SpiceX
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
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