NEWS: disks: Mention <transient> improvements and <slice> XML fix

[PATCH] NEWS: disks: Mention <transient> improvements and <slice> XML fix

Posted by Peter Krempa 2 years, 11 months ago

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
---
 NEWS.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 8358cbd369..66ce95d7cb 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -20,6 +20,17 @@ v7.4.0 (unreleased)

 * **New features**

+  * qemu: Add support for hotplugging ``<transient/>`` disks
+
+    The disk hotplug code in the qemu driver now can handle hotplug of disks
+    with automatically added overlay.
+
+  * qemu: Add support for sharing base image of ``<transient/>`` disks
+
+    Users can use ``<transient shareBacking='yes'/>`` to tell the qemu driver to
+    never open the base image in write mode thus multiple VMs can share the
+    same image. Note that the disk will be hotplugged during startup.
+
 * **Improvements**

   * Add win-dmp crashdump format
@@ -29,6 +40,10 @@ v7.4.0 (unreleased)

 * **Bug fixes**

+  * Allow 0 offset in XML schema for ``<slice type='storage' offset='0' size='321'/>``
+
+    Having a 0 offset so that the size of the image can be limited is a
+    valid configuration so it was allowd in the XML schema.

 v7.3.0 (2021-05-03)
 ===================
-- 
2.31.1

Re: [PATCH] NEWS: disks: Mention <transient> improvements and <slice> XML fix

Posted by Jiri Denemark 2 years, 11 months ago

On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 09:29:29 +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
> ---
>  NEWS.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
> index 8358cbd369..66ce95d7cb 100644
> --- a/NEWS.rst
> +++ b/NEWS.rst
> @@ -20,6 +20,17 @@ v7.4.0 (unreleased)
> 
>  * **New features**
> 
> +  * qemu: Add support for hotplugging ``<transient/>`` disks
> +
> +    The disk hotplug code in the qemu driver now can handle hotplug of disks
> +    with automatically added overlay.
> +
> +  * qemu: Add support for sharing base image of ``<transient/>`` disks
> +
> +    Users can use ``<transient shareBacking='yes'/>`` to tell the qemu driver to
> +    never open the base image in write mode thus multiple VMs can share the
> +    same image. Note that the disk will be hotplugged during startup.
> +
>  * **Improvements**
> 
>    * Add win-dmp crashdump format
> @@ -29,6 +40,10 @@ v7.4.0 (unreleased)
> 
>  * **Bug fixes**
> 
> +  * Allow 0 offset in XML schema for ``<slice type='storage' offset='0' size='321'/>``
> +
> +    Having a 0 offset so that the size of the image can be limited is a
> +    valid configuration so it was allowd in the XML schema.

s/allowd/allowed/

Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>