- Issued:
- 2009-10-12
- Updated:
- 2009-10-12
RHEA-2009:1491 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
rhn-virtualization enhancement update
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
Updated Red Hat Network Tools packages are now available that allow RHEV-M
managed instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to use guest RHN
subscriptions rather than physical subscriptions.
Description
The rhn-virtualization package provides several RHN/Spacewalk actions for
manipulating virtual machine guest images.
This update adds an enhancement to the way that rhn-virtualization
enumerates host lists.
When a virtualized instance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is registered with
RHN, rhn-virtualization-host uses libvirt to enumerate the host list and
ensure a guest subscription is used for a guest running under Xen or KVM.
On a RHEV-M managed host, however, libvirt is disabled and, in its place,
the VDSM daemon lists hosts. Consequently, Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests
subscribed to RHN used a full physical entitlement. With this update,
RHEV-M managed guest instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux follow the same
business rules as Xen- or KVM-based guests and use guest subscriptions to
RHN rather than physical ones. (BZ#526371)
Users managing virtual instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with RHEV-M
should install these updated packages which add this enhancement.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
The update is available via the Red Hat Network (RHN). To apply package
updates via the RHN, see http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259.
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
Fixes
- BZ - 526371 - rhn-virt-host needs to work with VDSM
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
x86_64 | |
rhn-virtualization-common-5.3.0-12.el5sat.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: b36e65daee221c0301aa037a0b620d2c3a35129bc692326ec3f1c5dc9b31d3c4 |
rhn-virtualization-host-5.3.0-12.el5sat.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: fdf3e236a19aea03978220907a3809a96382b717692f0aa1aad8aa5870c92ed1 |
ia64 | |
rhn-virtualization-common-5.3.0-12.el5sat.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: b36e65daee221c0301aa037a0b620d2c3a35129bc692326ec3f1c5dc9b31d3c4 |
rhn-virtualization-host-5.3.0-12.el5sat.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: fdf3e236a19aea03978220907a3809a96382b717692f0aa1aad8aa5870c92ed1 |
i386 | |
rhn-virtualization-common-5.3.0-12.el5sat.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: b36e65daee221c0301aa037a0b620d2c3a35129bc692326ec3f1c5dc9b31d3c4 |
rhn-virtualization-host-5.3.0-12.el5sat.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: fdf3e236a19aea03978220907a3809a96382b717692f0aa1aad8aa5870c92ed1 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
x86_64 | |
rhn-virtualization-common-5.3.0-12.el5sat.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: b36e65daee221c0301aa037a0b620d2c3a35129bc692326ec3f1c5dc9b31d3c4 |
rhn-virtualization-host-5.3.0-12.el5sat.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: fdf3e236a19aea03978220907a3809a96382b717692f0aa1aad8aa5870c92ed1 |
i386 | |
rhn-virtualization-common-5.3.0-12.el5sat.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: b36e65daee221c0301aa037a0b620d2c3a35129bc692326ec3f1c5dc9b31d3c4 |
rhn-virtualization-host-5.3.0-12.el5sat.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: fdf3e236a19aea03978220907a3809a96382b717692f0aa1aad8aa5870c92ed1 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
x86_64 | |
rhn-virtualization-common-5.3.0-12.el5sat.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: b36e65daee221c0301aa037a0b620d2c3a35129bc692326ec3f1c5dc9b31d3c4 |
rhn-virtualization-host-5.3.0-12.el5sat.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: fdf3e236a19aea03978220907a3809a96382b717692f0aa1aad8aa5870c92ed1 |
i386 | |
rhn-virtualization-common-5.3.0-12.el5sat.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: b36e65daee221c0301aa037a0b620d2c3a35129bc692326ec3f1c5dc9b31d3c4 |
rhn-virtualization-host-5.3.0-12.el5sat.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: fdf3e236a19aea03978220907a3809a96382b717692f0aa1aad8aa5870c92ed1 |
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