- Issued:
- 2010-06-22
- Updated:
- 2010-06-22
RHBA-2010:0494 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
virtio-win enhancement update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An enhanced virtio-win package is now available.
Description
Para-virtualized drivers are virtualization-aware drivers used by fully
virtualized guests running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Fully-virtualized guests
using the para-virtualized drivers gain significantly better I/O performance
than fully-virtualized guests running without the drivers.
This enhanced package provides para-virtualized network drivers for the
following guest operating systems:
32-bit Windows XP
32-bit Windows Server 2003
32-bit Windows Server 2003
64-bit Windows Server 2008
32-bit Windows Server 2008
64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2
32-bit Windows 7
32-bit Windows 7
This enhanced package also provides para-virtualized disk (block) drivers for
the following guest operating systems:
32-bit Windows XP
32-bit Windows Server 2003
32-bit Windows Server 2003
64-bit Windows Server 2008
32-bit Windows Server 2008
64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2
32-bit Windows 7
32-bit Windows 7
- Performance improvement by changing the behaviour of the interrupt and DPC
handling. (BZ#532298)
- Added support for paravirtual virtio based guest block driver for Windows XP.
(BZ#532299)
- Added support for full duplex transfer in paravirtual virtio based guest block
driver. (BZ#532303)
- Extra text that appeared in the license file was removed. (BZ#544005
All users running fully-virtualized instances of Windows on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux-based KVM hosts should upgrade to this package.
Solution
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
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 532298 - [NetKVM] Feature - Change the behaviour of the interrupt and DPC handling
- BZ - 532299 - [viostor] Add support for Windows XP for paravirtual virtio based guest block driver
- BZ - 532303 - [viostor] Feature - Add support for full duplex transfer in paravirtual virtio based guest block driver
- BZ - 544005 - Extra text caught in proprietary license file
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
virtio-win-1.0.0-11.45801.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 754a5a7b76bb52519b6733891f644ea573712a903b28e458d5ffe20ad1f6d8ee |
x86_64 | |
virtio-win-1.0.0-11.45801.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 96182cd98a1a6a2028fbc24138516a0985c4167cdc8e2c89f20d2a6a726e44a6 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
virtio-win-1.0.0-11.45801.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 754a5a7b76bb52519b6733891f644ea573712a903b28e458d5ffe20ad1f6d8ee |
x86_64 | |
virtio-win-1.0.0-11.45801.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 96182cd98a1a6a2028fbc24138516a0985c4167cdc8e2c89f20d2a6a726e44a6 |
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