[El-errata] ELBA-2010-0419 Enterprise Linux 5 kvm bug fix update

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Tue May 18 19:26:28 PDT 2010


Enterprise Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2010-0419

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0419.html

The following updated rpms for Enterprise Linux 5 have been uploaded to 
the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kmod-kvm-83-164.0.1.el5_5.9.x86_64.rpm
kvm-83-164.0.1.el5_5.9.x86_64.rpm
kvm-qemu-img-83-164.0.1.el5_5.9.x86_64.rpm
kvm-tools-83-164.0.1.el5_5.9.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/kvm-83-164.0.1.el5_5.9.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[kvm-83-164.0.1.el5_5.9]
- Add kvm-Introduce-oel-machine-type.patch
- Add kvm-add-oracle-workaround-for-libvirt-bug.patch

[kvm-83-164.el5_5.9]
- Remove bios-nohotplug.bin from package
- Related: bz#579737
  (QEMU: Too many devices are available for unplug in Windows XP (and we 
don't support that))

[kvm-83-164.el5_5.8]
- kvm-Revert-fix-wrong-acpi-mapping-rhel5.x-kvm-userspace.patch [bz#581758]
  - Patch causes issues (see bz#581758 comment 8)
- Related: bz#581758
  (Win7/32 stuck on 100% CPU (in testing VDI driver unclassified WHQL 
tests))

[kvm-83-164.el5_5.7]
- kvm-qcow2-Remove-abort-on-free_clusters-failure.patch [bz#583947 
bz#586246]
- Resolves: bz#583947
  (Guest aborted when make guest stop on write error)
- Resolves: bz#586246
  (Guest aborted when make guest stop on write error)

[kvm-83-164.el5_5.6]
- kvm-avoid-leaving-orphaned-swapcache-in-ksm.patch [bz#581764]
- Resolves: bz#581764
  (memory reported as used (by SwapCache and by Cache) though no process 
holds it.)

[kvm-83-164.el5_5.5]
- kvm-qcow2-Factor-next_refcount_table_size-out.patch [bz#581766]
- kvm-qcow2-Rewrite-alloc_refcount_block-grow_refcount_tab.patch [bz#581766]
- kvm-qcow2-More-checks-for-qemu-img-check.patch [bz#581766]
- Resolves: bz#581766
  (qcow2 corruption with I/O error during refcount block allocation)

[kvm-83-164.el5_5.4]
- kvm-fix-wrong-acpi-mapping-rhel5.x-kvm-userspace.patch [bz#581758]
- Resolves: bz#581758
  (Win7/32 stuck on 100% CPU (in testing VDI driver unclassified WHQL 
tests))

[kvm-83-164.el5_5.3]
- kvm-kernel-account-only-for-IRQ-injected-into-vcpu0.patch [bz#577266]
- kvm-kernel-Backport-KVM-fix-irq_source_id-size-verification.patch 
[bz#579863]
- Resolves: bz#577266
  (Time drift in win2k3-64bit and win2k8-64bit smp guest)
- Resolves: bz#579863
  (SR-IOV -- Guest exit and host hang on if boot VM with 8 VFs assigned)

[kvm-83-164.el5_5.2]
- kvm-kernel-KVM-x86-disable-paravirt-mmu-reporting.patch [bz#578579]
- Resolves: bz#578579
  (Linux pvmmu guests (FC11, FC12, etc) crash on boot on AMD hosts with 
NPT disabled)

[kvm-83-164.el5_5.1]
- Updated kversion to 2.6.18-194.el5 to match build root
- kvm-Build-an-additional-bios-without-hotplug-support.patch [bz#579737]
- Resolves: bz#579737
  (QEMU: Too many devices are available for unplug in Windows XP (and we 
don't support that))






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