Scientific Linux: 2010-03-18 Low Severity Virtio Driver Update

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:40:38 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Low: Virtio on SL3.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Low: Virtio drivers for kernel 2.4.21-63.EL
Issue date:	2010-03-18

This new package provides signed, para-virtualized block and network
drivers for Scientific Linux 3 as a KVM virtualized guest.

Users may see various warnings during package installation, including:

* Different versions of package are already installed. Older versions of
the package may cause "File exists" error messages to appear. The
package will install successfully the error messages just inform the
user that files for devices exist. This warning can be ignored.

* If the previous installed package was for a different kernel (for
example, kmod-virtio-smp on hugemem system), the installation will fail.
Modules cannot be inserted and a "Wrong number of arguments" error
message will appear. To fix this issue, create nodes manually as covered
in the README file. This issue can be prevented by installing the
correct drivers for the kernel package.

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
virtio-0.1-17.el3.src.rpm
 i386:
kmod-virtio-0.1-17.el3.i686.rpm
kmod-virtio-hugemem-0.1-17.el3.i686.rpm
kmod-virtio-smp-0.1-17.el3.i686.rpm
 x86_64:
kmod-virtio-0.1-17.el3.x86_64.rpm
kmod-virtio-smp-0.1-17.el3.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson