Fedora 8 Update: kernel-xen-2.6-2.6.21.7-3.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-2618
2008-03-26 16:49:57
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Name        : kernel-xen-2.6
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 2.6.21.7
Release     : 3.fc8
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary     : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.

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Update Information:

Updates the Xen hypervisor to version 3.1.3 in order to fix booting a 32 bit
pv_ops xen kernel on a 64 bit hypervisor (bug #436859)
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Mar 20 2008 Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com>
- Update HV to 3.1.1; fixes pv_ops 32-on-64 (bug #436859)
* Fri Feb 15 2008 Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com>
- Add e1000e driver (bug #360691)
* Tue Feb 12 2008 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
- CVE-2008-0600 fix (bug #432517)
* Sat Feb  2 2008 Daniel Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
- Really turn on pciback module for x86_64
* Fri Feb  1 2008 Daniel Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
- Turn on pciback module for PCI passthrough on x86_64 (rhbz #388041)
* Mon Nov 19 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
- Re-add xen-hypervisor-abi provides. It was lost on the spec resync
  (problem detected on updates-testing)
* Mon Nov 12 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
- Pull RPM spec changes from non-xen kernel
  - Enabled -debuginfo packages (bug #336351)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #436859 - F-8 xen: update HV in kernel-xen to 3.1.3 (fixes 32-on-64 issue with F-9 pv_ops xen)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436859
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update kernel-xen-2.6' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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