[Hwcert-announce-list] Updated Red Hat Hardware Test Suite Fully Virtualized Guest Images Available

[Engineering Partner Management]

Greetings Red Hat Partners,

We are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of the 
fully-virtualized guest images (v7x86_64-20120424, v7i386-20120425, 
v7data-20120601) for use with the Red Hat v7 Hardware Test Suite 1.4 or 1.5.

The fully-virtualized guest images provide the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
guest environment used during the Red Hat Hardware Certification suite's 
fv_* tests and are intended for use with both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
5.x under Xen and for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x under KVM.

These images *are* official releases and should be used for Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux hardware certification submissions. The current 
fully-virtualized guest images (v7x86_64-20100310, v7i386-20100310, 
v7data-20100311) will continue to be accepted for a period of 90 days.


The fully-virtualized GA images are available at the following location:

ftp://partners.redhat.com/a166eabc5cf5df158922f9b06e5e7b21/hwcert/RHEL5/fv-images/


Highlights of the fully-virtualized GA images include:

* The guest OS is rebased to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7, which is an 
upgrade from 5.3.

* The FV GA guest images are the same as the Release Candidate except 
for the v7-data image, which was updated between RC and GA.

* The v7-data GA image (v7data-20120601) is now updated to include v7-1.5-32

* These images are now the default used by the test suite when 
automatically retrieving guest images.


The fully-virtualized GA images have been tested against Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on the x86 and x86_64 
architectures with the v7 1.4-38 and v7 1.5-32.

If you encounter any problems, please file bugs against the 'Red Hat 
Hardware Certification Program' product in Red Hat Bugzilla 
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com).

We value your ongoing participation in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
Hardware Certification efforts. Thank you for your continued 
partnership. If you have any questions or comments, please do not 
hesitate to contact your Partner Manager or Technical Account Manager.

Regards,

The Red Hat Hardware Certification Team