[PATCH] NEWS: Mention 'manual' snapshots and FD passing for 'virsh qemu-monitor-command'

Peter Krempa posted 1 patch 2 years ago
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NEWS.rst | 11 +++++++++++
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[PATCH] NEWS: Mention 'manual' snapshots and FD passing for 'virsh qemu-monitor-command'
Posted by Peter Krempa 2 years ago
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
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 NEWS.rst | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 754687ac4d..900e2702dd 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ v8.2.0 (unreleased)

 * **New features**

+  * qemu: Introduce ``manual`` disk snapshot mode
+
+    This new mode allows users to synchronize libvirt snapshots with snapshots
+    which need to be done outside of libvirt e.g. when 'vhost-user-blk' is used
+    to back the disk.
+
 * **Improvements**

   * qemu: ``VIR_MIGRATE_PARAM_TLS_DESTINATION`` now works with non-shared storage migration
@@ -32,6 +38,11 @@ v8.2.0 (unreleased)
     specify the overrides instead of relying on the argv passthrough of the
     ``-set`` qemu commandline option which no longer works with new qemu.

+  * qemu: Allow passing file descriptors to ``virsh qemu-monitor-command``
+
+    Passing FDs allows users wanting to experiment with qemu driven by libvirt
+    use commands like ``add-fd`` properly.
+
 * **Bug fixes**

   * Both build and tests should now pass on Alpine Linux or any other
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