From nobody Fri May 3 12:42:45 2024 Delivered-To: importer@patchew.org Received-SPF: pass (zoho.com: domain of redhat.com designates 209.132.183.28 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.183.28; envelope-from=libvir-list-bounces@redhat.com; helo=mx1.redhat.com; Authentication-Results: mx.zohomail.com; spf=pass (zoho.com: domain of redhat.com designates 209.132.183.28 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=libvir-list-bounces@redhat.com Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by mx.zohomail.com with SMTPS id 1511461978190339.0775405243751; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 10:32:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9FE46C047B6F; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:32:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from colo-mx.corp.redhat.com (colo-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.20]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 379375C552; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:32:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists01.pubmisc.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com (lists01.pubmisc.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.19.33]) by colo-mx.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E8881800BDB; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:32:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.14]) by lists01.pubmisc.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id vANIWro6025922 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 13:32:53 -0500 Received: by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) id 8B5145D960; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:32:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from angien.brq.redhat.com (unknown [10.43.2.136]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD9F65D969; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:32:50 +0000 (UTC) From: Peter Krempa To: libvir-list@redhat.com Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 19:32:26 +0100 Message-Id: <0197cf1a53469d1d94ea30b4b46dd86706f5d1a2.1511461946.git.pkrempa@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.14 X-loop: libvir-list@redhat.com Cc: Peter Krempa Subject: [libvirt] [PATCH] news: Document qemu image locking X-BeenThere: libvir-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: junk List-Id: Development discussions about the libvirt library & tools List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: libvir-list-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: libvir-list-bounces@redhat.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.16 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.31]); Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:32:57 +0000 (UTC) X-ZohoMail: RSF_0 Z_629925259 SPT_0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Reviewed-by: John Ferlan --- docs/news.xml | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index 81b7b68f95..76dfc92a20 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -135,6 +135,19 @@ can prepare the files if they need to do so. + + + Shareable disks work properly with recent qemu + + + Recent qemu versions added image locking to avoid potential corr= uption + of disk images. This broke shareable disks with libvirt since the + feature was turned on by default in qemu. Libvirt now enables sh= aring + of those disks in qemu so that the image locking is not applied = in + that case. Additionally libvirt now checks that shareable disks = have + supported format (raw) to avoid metadata corruption. + +
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