-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-2117 2008-02-28 21:16:37 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name : kvm Product : Fedora 7 Version : 36 Release : 9.fc7 URL : http://kvm.sf.net Summary : Kernel-based Virtual Machine Description : KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware.

Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:

Fixes major unrecoverable data corruption seen with QCow disk images -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:

* Wed Feb 27 2008 Daniel P. Berrange berrange@redhat.com - 36-9.fc7 - Fix block device checks for extendable disk formats (rhbz #435211) * Sat Feb 23 2008 Daniel P. Berrange berrange@redhat.com - 36-8.fc7 - Fix block device extents check (rhbz #433560) * Mon Oct 15 2007 Daniel P. Berrange berrange@redhat.com - 36-7 - Fixed PXE boot when KVM is enabled (rhbz #331191) * Wed Sep 26 2007 Daniel P. Berrange berrange@redhat.com - 36-6 - Fixed rtl8139 checksum calculation for Vista (rhbz #308201) * Mon Sep 24 2007 Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com - 36-5 - fix build on x86_64 * Mon Sep 24 2007 Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com - 36-3 - add support for selecting boot device at runtime * Tue Sep 4 2007 Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com - 36-2 - rebase vnc auth patch * Tue Sep 4 2007 Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com - 36-1 - update to kvm-36 * Mon Aug 27 2007 Daniel P. Berrange berrange@redhat.com - 35-3 - Added patch for VNC password auth and TLS+x509 cert auth * Mon Aug 20 2007 Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com - 35-2 - add fix for ATAPI from upstream qemu * Mon Aug 20 2007 Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com - 35-1 - update to kvm-35 - patch to use -Wl,--build-id so that we get debuginfo * Thu Jul 19 2007 Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com - 31-1 - update to kvm-31 * Mon Jul 16 2007 Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com - 28-2 - add patch from danpb to fix mac addrs of multiple 8139 nics (#247641) * Wed Jun 13 2007 Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com - 28-1 - update to kvm-28 * Sat Jun 9 2007 Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com - 27-1 - update to kvm-27 * Tue May 29 2007 Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com - 26-1 - update to kvm-26 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:

[ 1 ] Bug #435211 - Recent Update to F7 Broke KVM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435211 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update kvm' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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