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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-534
2007-05-30
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Product : Fedora Core 5
Name : xen
Version : 3.0.3
Release : 6.fc5
Summary : Xen is a virtual machine monitor
Description :
This package contains the Xen hypervisor and Xen tools, needed to
run virtual machines on x86 systems, together with the kernel-xen*
packages. Information on how to use Xen can be found at the Xen
project pages.
Virtualisation can be used to run multiple versions or multiple
Linux distributions on one system, or to test untrusted applications
in a sandboxed environment.
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Update Information:
Provides a minor fix for networking bonding in balanced-rr mode
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* Mon Apr 2 2007 Markus Armbruster <armbru(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.3-6.fc5
- fix ethernet bonding in balanced-rr mode
* Wed Mar 14 2007 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.3-5.fc5
- Disable access to QEMU monitor over VNC (CVE-2007-0998, bz 230295)
* Tue Mar 6 2007 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.3-4.fc5
- Ensure PVFB daemon terminates if domain doesn't startup (bz 230634)
- Close QEMU file handles when running network script
- Improve hotplug error reporting
- Don't start PVFB daemon for HVM guests
- disable ipv6 autoconf on xenbr* devices (rhbz#216504)
- Fixed destroyDevice callers
- Workaround 'Cannot allocate memory' HVM bug
- Santize man pages
* Tue Jan 30 2007 Markus Armbruster <armbru(a)redhat.com>
- Update Xen paravirt framebuffer patch to upstream xen-unstable
changeset 13066. This changes the protocol to the one accepted
upstream.
- Add compatibility with guests running our initial protocol.
* Tue Jan 9 2007 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.3-3.fc5
- fix core dumps of 32 bit guests >2GB RAM (bz 215796)
- write the /local/domain/vm node early in the startup process (bz 215269)
- fix memory boundary checking in qemu-dm (bz 221119)
- add --force option to xenbus device detach code (bz 217853)
- fix keeping track of HVM vnc password (bz 218050)
- enable DMA on HVM virtual cdrom drive (bz 218357)
- new paravirt framebuffer, as merged upstream (bz 218050)
- more cosmetic pygrub fixing (bz 215316)
- make ballooning work right (bz 212069)
- do not auto-start a domain that was restored from a save (bz 217295)
- use log level info for messages that are not errors (bz 218759)
- Allows HTTP request to dump core of a domain (bz 214913)
- catch it when an HVM guest tries to use hde (bz 217736)
- make "xm list" display how much memory a domain really has (bz 217443)
- pass qemu and blktap I/O errors back to the guest (bz 217765, 217859)
- fix 2TB overflow/wraparound in blktap (bz 217580)
- various fixes from Herbert Xu's security audit
- allow HVM virtual floppy to be a device on dom0 (bz 216449)
- make uppercase characters always work in HVM console (bz 217554)
- move the dump path to /var/lib/xen (bug 212558)
* Tue Nov 14 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.3-2.fc5
- add vmxassist fix from RHEL5.
* Mon Oct 30 2006 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.3-1.fc5
- Update to xen-3.0.3 changeset 11774
- Pull in paravirt framebuffer patches
- Pull in VNC password patches for full & para-virt framebuffer
- Fix xenguest-install.py to use a read-write libvirt connection
- Make /etc/xen & /var/log/xen mode 0700 restricted to protect VNC password
- Add /var/lib/xen/images as a dir for storing file based disk images
- Added pygrub fixes for many kernels & cursor cosmetics
* Wed Sep 20 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.2-4.FC5
- Update to xen-unstable cset: 11540.
* Wed Jun 21 2006 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.2-3.FC5
- Add missing xen-compat.h needed to compile on the new xen sources
* Tue Jun 20 2006 Stephen C. Tweedie <sct(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.2-2.FC5
- Add BuildRequires: for gnu/stubs-32.h so that x86_64 builds pick up
glibc32 correctly
- Update to xen-unstable cset 10278 (from rawhide) to enable kernel rebase
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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/5/
ab6b72c4d20d8f1b9be706cc18c0386ed341af99 SRPMS/xen-3.0.3-6.fc5.src.rpm
ab6b72c4d20d8f1b9be706cc18c0386ed341af99 noarch/xen-3.0.3-6.fc5.src.rpm
739ef5354b55270e62643785313218150060b316
x86_64/debug/xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-6.fc5.x86_64.rpm
22f5575a94f3462ff4eb9900bc9596187af6e1ee x86_64/xen-3.0.3-6.fc5.x86_64.rpm
cd759d633612a050abe6f064690b44767cdfd2ff i386/debug/xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-6.fc5.i386.rpm
6e5037187128727c8821fa1164b211eab4d8136b i386/xen-3.0.3-6.fc5.i386.rpm
This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
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