There are some features/improvements/bug fixes I've either contributed or reviewed/merged. Document them for upcoming release. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> --- NEWS.rst | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index XXXXXXX..XXXXXXX 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -XXX,XX +XXX,XX @@ v10.6.0 (unreleased) * **Improvements** + * qemu: Set 'passt' net backend if 'default' is unsupported + + If QEMU is compiled without SLIRP support, and if domain XML allows it, + starting from this release libvirt will use passt as the default backend + instead. Also, supported backends are now reported in the domain + capabilities XML. + + * qemu: Require QEMU-5.2.0 or newer + + The minimal required version of QEMU was bumped to 5.2.0. + + * qemu: add a monitor to /proc/$pid when killing times out + + In cases when a QEMU process takes longer to be killed, libvirt might have + skipped cleaning up after it. But now a /proc/$pid watch is installed so + this does not happen ever again. + * **Bug fixes** + * virt-aa-helper: Allow RO access to /usr/share/edk2-ovmf + + When binary version of edk2 is distributed, the files reside under + /usr/share/edk2-ovmf. Allow virt-aa-helper to generate paths under that + directory. + + * virt-host-validate: Allow longer list of CPU flags + + During its run, virt-host-validate parses /proc/cpuinfo to learn about CPU + flags. But due to a bug it parsed only the first 1024 bytes worth of CPU + flags leading to unexpected results. The file is now parsed properly. + + * capabilities: Be more forgiving when decoding OEM strings + + On some systems, OEM strings are scattered in multiple sections. This + confused libvirt when generating capabilities XML. Not anymore. + v10.5.0 (2024-07-01) ==================== -- 2.44.2 From: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> There are some features/improvements/bug fixes I've either contributed or reviewed/merged. Document them for upcoming release. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> --- NEWS.rst | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index XXXXXXX..XXXXXXX 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -XXX,XX +XXX,XX @@ v12.0.0 (unreleased) Notably, issues that were preventing the use of firmware designed for confidential VMs on aarch64 have been addressed. + * network: Introduce port for DNS forwarder + + In the ``<dns/>`` section of network configuration users can set up + forwarding of DNS requests to custom DNS servers. These are specified using + ``addr`` attribute. But configuring port wasn't possible, until now. New + ``port`` attribute is introduced, which allows overriding the default DNS + port for given address. + * **Bug fixes** * qemu: Fix startup of VMs with more than ~25 external snapshots @@ -XXX,XX +XXX,XX @@ v12.0.0 (unreleased) on a shared filesystem on the destination but on the source it's either on a different NFS or unshared completely. + * qemu: Treat memory device source nodemask as strict NUMA policy + + Until now, the NUMA policy for ``<memory/>`` devices was taken either from + the guest NUMA node or ``<numatune/>``. But this may lead to discrepancies, + where the memory device is configured to bind to a set of host NUMA nodes, + but the guest NUMA node is to bind to a disjoint set of host NUMA nodes. To + resolve this, specifying ``<nodemask/>`` for a memory device implies + ``strict`` policy. + + * qemu: Relax validation of some hyperv features + + Since 11.9.0 release, libvirt performs dependency checks for hyperv + features, for instance ``stimer`` requires ``synic``. But as it turned out, + for some ancient machine types (e.g. 'pc-i440fx-3.0' or 'pc-q35-3.0') some + dependencies are not true. Corresponding checks were removed. + + * esx: URI encode inventory objects twice + + Formatting domain XML for domains on an ESX server might fail if + corresponding datacenter or datastore contained special characters (e.g. + '+'). This is now fixed. + v11.10.0 (2025-12-01) ===================== -- 2.52.0