- Issued:
- 2014-04-02
- Updated:
- 2014-04-02
RHBA-2014:0351 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
virtio-win bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated virtio-win package that fixes two bugs is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.
Description
The virtio-win packages provide paravirtualized network drivers for most
Microsoft Windows operating systems. Paravirtualized drivers are
virtualization-aware drivers used by fully virtualized guests running on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux.
This update fixes the following bugs:
- Due to an incomplete cleanup of the QEMU Guest Agent registry entries
performed by Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) during the removal of the agent,
the next installation of QEMU Guest Agent could fail under certain
circumstances. This update fixes the behavior of the QEMU Guest Agent installer,
and installing and reinstalling of QEMU Guest Agent no longer causes errors.
(BZ#1073976)
- Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) for QEMU Guest Agent should not respond to
requests coming from any other component than QEMU Guest Agent. When no other
hardware snapshot provider was installed, VSS could choose the QEMU Guest Agent
VSS provider to create shadow copies. Consequently, creating shadow copies could
fail with the following error:
VSS_E_UNEXPECTED_PROVIDER_ERROR
With this update, VSS is notified that the volume is not supported by the QEMU
Guest Agent VSS provider when it is queried by other requesters. As a result, no
side effects are introduced to the system when the Guest Agent VSS provider is
present. (BZ#1074613)
Users of virtio-win are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes
these bugs.
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. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.5 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1074613 - [guest-agent] [vss] creating a shadow copy using qemu-guest-agent (with vss support) is failing on a windows server
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6
SRPM | |
---|---|
virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6_5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 037adf0f95348a0fc31d0758102881ff60366468a9026cac921bb2b784052d24 |
x86_64 | |
virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6_5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 058b31f1f609c68bcac1e4d37804aee3c90773f29b8f08e6a2c84c51ec88942c |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.5
SRPM | |
---|---|
virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6_5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 037adf0f95348a0fc31d0758102881ff60366468a9026cac921bb2b784052d24 |
x86_64 | |
virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6_5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 058b31f1f609c68bcac1e4d37804aee3c90773f29b8f08e6a2c84c51ec88942c |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.5
SRPM | |
---|---|
virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6_5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 037adf0f95348a0fc31d0758102881ff60366468a9026cac921bb2b784052d24 |
x86_64 | |
virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6_5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 058b31f1f609c68bcac1e4d37804aee3c90773f29b8f08e6a2c84c51ec88942c |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6
SRPM | |
---|---|
virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6_5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 037adf0f95348a0fc31d0758102881ff60366468a9026cac921bb2b784052d24 |
x86_64 | |
virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6_5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 058b31f1f609c68bcac1e4d37804aee3c90773f29b8f08e6a2c84c51ec88942c |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6
SRPM | |
---|---|
virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6_5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 037adf0f95348a0fc31d0758102881ff60366468a9026cac921bb2b784052d24 |
x86_64 | |
virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6_5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 058b31f1f609c68bcac1e4d37804aee3c90773f29b8f08e6a2c84c51ec88942c |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6
SRPM | |
---|---|
virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6_5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 037adf0f95348a0fc31d0758102881ff60366468a9026cac921bb2b784052d24 |
x86_64 | |
virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6_5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 058b31f1f609c68bcac1e4d37804aee3c90773f29b8f08e6a2c84c51ec88942c |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.5
SRPM | |
---|---|
virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6_5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 037adf0f95348a0fc31d0758102881ff60366468a9026cac921bb2b784052d24 |
x86_64 | |
virtio-win-1.6.8-4.el6_5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 058b31f1f609c68bcac1e4d37804aee3c90773f29b8f08e6a2c84c51ec88942c |
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