Issued:
2015-07-22
Updated:
2015-07-22

RHBA-2015:1372 - python-virtinst bug fix update

Synopsis

python-virtinst bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated python-virtinst package that fixes several bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The python-virtinst package contains several command-line utilities, including virt-install for building and installing new virtual machines, and virt-clone for cloning existing virtual machines.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Previously, the virt-manager tool generated an invalid XML code when defining a bridge interface. As a consequence, bridge devices could not be created. With this update, virt-manager generates the correct definition XML and creating bridge devices no longer fails. (BZ#1172407)

  • Prior to this update, input from the user was validated incorrectly by the virt-install utility. Consequently, a non-sparse LVM could not be created and an error message was displayed. This update fixes the input validation and virt-install can now create a non-sparse LVM as expected and an error no longer occurs. (BZ#1167998)

  • Previously, changing the processor type to "copy from host" caused all CPU extensions to be copied manually, even extensions that were not supported for migration. As a consequence, running the "virsh save" command after reboot failed, and an error message was displayed. With this update, when the "--cpu=host" option is specified, the "cpu mode='host-model'" option is used. As a result, unsupported extensions are not no longer manually copied, and the described error no longer occurs. (BZ#1167072)

Users of python-virtinst 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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • python-virtinst-0.600.0-29.el6.noarch.rpm
  • python-virtinst-0.600.0-29.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information