openSUSE Recommended Update: Xen: Collective Update 2011/01 ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2011:0027-1 Rating: moderate References: #497149 #552115 #583568 #603371 #615206 #618087 #628701 #628719 #628729 #629022 #635380 #636231 #638465 #639546 #640370 #640773 #640874 #641144 #641859 #642078 #643477 #647681 #649277 #649864 #650871 #652935 #656245 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has 27 recommended fixes can now be installed. It includes one version update. Description: Collective Xen Update, fixing the following reports: Xen Hypervisor and Tools - 628729 - [xm command]xm list performance is not good - 652935 - Corrupted display when booting xen kernel - 649864 - automatic numa cpu placement of xen conflicts with cpupools - 641144 - FV Xen VM running windows or linux cannot write to virtual floppy drive - 552115 - Remove target discovery in block-iscsi - 649277 - Fix pci passthru in xend interface used by libvirt - 642078 - xm snapshot-create causes qemu-dm to SEGV - 647681 - L3: Passthrough of certain PCI device broken after SLES 11 to SP1 upgrade - 650871 - Regression in Xen PCI Passthrough - 497149 - SLES11 64bit Xen - SLES11 64bit HVM guest has corrupt text console - 640370 - VM graphic console in VNC is corrupted - 583568 - Xen kernel is not booting - 615206 - Xen kernel fails to boot with IO-APIC problem - 640773 - Xen kernel crashing right after grub - 643477 - issues with PCI hotplug/hotunplug to Xen driver domain - 618087 - VNC view won't stay connected to fully virtualized Linux Xen VMs - 639546 - Dom-U deleted after introduction of the parameter "change_home_server False" in the VM configuration - 641859 - block-dmmd script does not handle the configuration when only MD is used - 640773 - Xen kernel crashing right after grub - 628719 - improve check_device_status to handle HA cases - 636231 - XEN: Unable to disconnect/remove CDROM drive from VM - 638465 - hypervisor panic in memory handling - 635380 - Fix pygrub Grub2 support - 628701 - Improve performance when activate/deactivate dmmd devices - 628701 - Fix qemu-dm handling of dmmd devices - 651822 - Fix xm snapshot-xxx scripts lead to an chkdsk - 656245 - Fix application or kernel in any pv domain able to crash Xen - 658163 - Fix boot on Nehalem systems - 659085 - Fix reboot for unknown reason (disable regression causing patch) - 659070 - Revert keyboard fixes Virtual Machine Installer (vm-install) - 640874 - vm-install not creating guest with proper qcow2 disk image format - 629022 - [vm-install]max nics when create VM (Allow up to 8 nics instead of 3.) - 603371 - In KVM SVVP HAL timer tests (HCT) are failing (Disable hpet for windows guests on KVM.) Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 11.3: zypper in -t patch xen-201101-3779 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 11.3 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 0.4.27]: vm-install-0.4.27-2.1.2 xen-4.0.1_21326_02-0.5.1 xen-devel-4.0.1_21326_02-0.5.1 xen-doc-html-4.0.1_21326_02-0.5.1 xen-doc-pdf-4.0.1_21326_02-0.5.1 xen-kmp-default-4.0.1_21326_02_k2.6.34.7_0.7-0.5.1 xen-kmp-desktop-4.0.1_21326_02_k2.6.34.7_0.7-0.5.1 xen-libs-4.0.1_21326_02-0.5.1 xen-tools-4.0.1_21326_02-0.5.1 xen-tools-domU-4.0.1_21326_02-0.5.1 - openSUSE 11.3 (i586): xen-kmp-pae-4.0.1_21326_02_k2.6.34.7_0.7-0.5.1 References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/497149 https://bugzilla.novell.com/552115 https://bugzilla.novell.com/583568 https://bugzilla.novell.com/603371 https://bugzilla.novell.com/615206 https://bugzilla.novell.com/618087 https://bugzilla.novell.com/628701 https://bugzilla.novell.com/628719 https://bugzilla.novell.com/628729 https://bugzilla.novell.com/629022 https://bugzilla.novell.com/635380 https://bugzilla.novell.com/636231 https://bugzilla.novell.com/638465 https://bugzilla.novell.com/639546 https://bugzilla.novell.com/640370 https://bugzilla.novell.com/640773 https://bugzilla.novell.com/640874 https://bugzilla.novell.com/641144 https://bugzilla.novell.com/641859 https://bugzilla.novell.com/642078 https://bugzilla.novell.com/643477 https://bugzilla.novell.com/647681 https://bugzilla.novell.com/649277 https://bugzilla.novell.com/649864 https://bugzilla.novell.com/650871 https://bugzilla.novell.com/652935 https://bugzilla.novell.com/656245