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Chapter 2. New Packages
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2.24. RHEA-2009:1334: qspice
A new
qspice
package is now available.
The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display protocol
designed for virtual environments. SPICE users can view a virtualized desktop or server from the
local system or any system with network access to the server. SPICE is available for a variety of
machine architectures and operating systems. SPICE is used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for viewing
virtualized guests running on the KVM hypervisor or on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors.
Users requiring remote display capabilities for KVM hypervisors should install this new package.
2.25. RHEA-2009:1399: samba3x
A new package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Samba
is a suite of programs used by machines to share files, printers, and other utilities.
samba3x
contains version 3.3 of
Samba
, and is now included as a Technology Preview in Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5. To use the
samba3x
Technology Preview, the supported version of samba
(provided by the
samba
package) must be removed first.
2.26. RHEA-2009:1308: xorg-x11-drv-qxl
xorg-x11-qxl-drv
is a new package that is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as a
technology preview.
xorg-x11-qxl-drv
is an X11 video driver for the qemu QXL video accelerator. This driver makes it
possible to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as a guest operating system under KVM and QEMU, using
the SPICE protocol.
Technology preview features are included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux to provide the features
with wide exposure with the goal of supporting these features in a future release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. technology preview features are not supported under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
subscription services and may not be functionally complete. Red Hat welcomes customer feedback
and suggestions for technology previews. Advisories will be provided for high-severity security issues
in technology preview features.
All users who plan to preview this forthcoming technology are advised to install this new package.
2.27. RHEA-2009:1406: xorg-x11-xdm
The
xorg-x11-xdm
package is now available.
• XDM (X Window Display Manager) is a sample display manager for the X window system. This
package makes XDM available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for the first time. (
BZ#414171
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)
All users who require XDM should install this new package.