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auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=libvir-list-bounces@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-ZohoMail-DKIM: pass (identity @redhat.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik Reviewed-by: J=C3=A1n Tomko --- NEWS.rst | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 07cec19c2b..b9a3d94eb2 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -48,6 +48,28 @@ v7.0.0 (unreleased) an usage name which would not pass the XML validation. Relax the requi= rement to make such XMLs valid. =20 + * virnetdevopenvswitch: Various improvements + + The code that handles ```` was given va= rious + improvements. So far, libvirt assumed vhostuser interfaces are handled + exclusively by OpenVSwitch and refused to start a guest if it was not = so. + Now a guest can be started successfully even if the interface is creat= ed by + some other tool (e.g. ``dpdk-testpmd``). Also, the code that detects t= he + interface name was adopted to new versions of OpenVSwitch and thus can + detect name more reliably. + + * qemu: Report guest disks informations in ``virDomainGetGuestInfo`` + + Libvirt is now able to report disks and filesystems from the guest's + perspective (using guest agent). And with sufficiently new guest agent + (5.3.0 or newer) the API also handles disks on CCW bus. + + * conf: Add support for keeping TPM emulator state + + Currently, swtpm TPM state file is removed when a transient domain is + powered off or undefined. Add per-TPM emulator option ``persistent_sat= e`` + for keeping TPM state. + * **Bug fixes** =20 * qemu: Fix logic bug in inactive snapshot deletion @@ -69,6 +91,31 @@ v7.0.0 (unreleased) amount of initial memory. Existing guests that migrate from an older libvirt version to 7.0.0 will not be affected by this change. =20 + * qemu: Don't cache NUMA caps + + ``virsh capabilities`` contains ```` section which reports = NUMA + topology among with amount of free hugepages per each NUMA node. Howev= er, + these amounts were not updated between calls. + + * networkGetDHCPLeases: Handle leases with infinite expiry time + + Since libvirt-6.3.0 it is possible to configure expiry time for DHCP + leases. If the expiry time was infinite then ``virsh net-dhcp-leases`` + and NSS plugins refused to work. + + * qemu: Don't prealloc mem for real NVDIMMs + + If a real life NVDIMM is assigned to a guest via ```` + then QEMU is no longer instructed to preallocate memory + for it. This prevents unnecessary wear off of the NVDIMM. + + * network: Introduce mutex for bridge name generation + + When new libvirt network is defined or created and the input XML does = not + contain any bridge name, libvirt generates one. However, it might have + happened that the same name would be generated for different networks = if + two or more networks were defined/created at once. + =20 v6.10.0 (2020-12-01) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --=20 2.26.2