Chapter 10. Virtualization

Support for attaching a host CD-ROM to a paravirtualized guest as a virtual block device has been improved.

In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8, virtual block devices in Xen guests reflect any on-line re-sizing of the host-side backing devices.

To enable simple installation and updating of drivers without requiring an MSI installer to be run, SPICE QXL drivers have been added to the virtio-win RPM package.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 includes a new pixman package which provides a low-level pixel manipulation library and offers features such as image compositing and trapezoid rasterization. The pixman package is added as a dependency of the spice-client package.