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no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-config-1; header-match-config-2; header-match-config-3; header-match-devel.lists.libvirt.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.2.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Development discussions about the libvirt library & tools Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-ZohoMail-DKIM: fail (Header signature does not verify) X-ZM-MESSAGEID: 1732716526330019100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark --- NEWS.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 185880d0e8..4b7f4e8244 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -38,10 +38,31 @@ v10.10.0 (unreleased) Updates to QEMU CPU models with -vN suffix can now be used in libvirt = just like any other CPU model. + * qemu: Support for the 'data-file' QCOW2 image feature + + The QEMU hypervisor driver now supports QCOW2 images with 'data-file' + feature present (both when probing form the image itself and when spec= ified + explicitly via ```` element). This can be useful when it's + required to keep data "raw" on disk, but the use case requires features + of the QCOW2 format such as incremental backups. + * **Improvements** + * qemu: Support UEFI NVRAM images on block storage + + Libvirt now allows users to use block storage as backend for UEFI NVRAM + images and allows them to be in format different than the template. Wh= en + qcow2 is used as the format, the images are now also auto-populated fr= om the + template. + * **Bug fixes** + * qemu: Fix reversion and inactive deletion of internal snapshots with U= EFI NVRAM + + In `v10.9.0 (2024-11-01)`_ creation of internal snapshots of VMs with = UEFI + firmware was allowed, but certain operations such as reversion or inac= tive + deletion didn't work properly as they didn't consider the NVRAM qcow2 = file. + v10.9.0 (2024-11-01) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --=20 2.47.0