- Issued:
- 2012-02-20
- Updated:
- 2012-02-20
RHEA-2012:0225 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
new package: virt-who
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
A new virt-who package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Description
The virt-who package provides an agent that collects information about virtual
guests present in the system and reports them to the subscription manager.
This enhancement update adds the new virt-who package to Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5. (BZ#725839)
All users who require virt-who are advised to install this new 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. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/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
Fixes
- BZ - 725839 - [RFE] Basic host agent: Report guest ids for certificate generation purpose
- BZ - 749514 - implement alternate guest uuid upload method
- BZ - 754330 - Can not retrieve running guests UUID in RHEVH node.
- BZ - 756380 - virt-who loses reading guest info upon libvirtd restarts
- BZ - 757974 - virt-who reported wrong UUIDs of guests after deleting a guest
- BZ - 759631 - debugging output going to stderr always
- BZ - 765728 - Need to export all virt-who env variables in virt-who-initscript
- BZ - 769170 - After restarting libvirtd service, uuid of added guest couldn't display in virt-who on Xen(PV)
- BZ - 772379 - The virt-who can't start if the vcenter's password is blank in ESX mode.
- BZ - 772612 - Virt-who can't report guest's uuid infos in ESX mode.
- BZ - 783355 - If there is no guest on ESX,virt-who will report "AttributeError" info.
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
virt-who-0.5-5.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 424c97ab83313d3675e2cb5a41541f9c2d8cb59950ac6082f8511f04db7c0aab |
x86_64 | |
virt-who-0.5-5.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 2b6dcdfb355b833252c09d29956f5e3df6f2b122f3e324f022891da940886c8e |
ia64 | |
virt-who-0.5-5.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 2b6dcdfb355b833252c09d29956f5e3df6f2b122f3e324f022891da940886c8e |
i386 | |
virt-who-0.5-5.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 2b6dcdfb355b833252c09d29956f5e3df6f2b122f3e324f022891da940886c8e |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
virt-who-0.5-5.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 424c97ab83313d3675e2cb5a41541f9c2d8cb59950ac6082f8511f04db7c0aab |
x86_64 | |
virt-who-0.5-5.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 2b6dcdfb355b833252c09d29956f5e3df6f2b122f3e324f022891da940886c8e |
i386 | |
virt-who-0.5-5.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 2b6dcdfb355b833252c09d29956f5e3df6f2b122f3e324f022891da940886c8e |
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