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news-moderation; no-subject; suspicious-header CC: nikolai.barybin@virtuozzo.com, den@openvz.org 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: 1727963502335116600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa --- NEWS.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 437e032b90..7efc440202 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -19,6 +19,22 @@ v10.9.0 (unreleased) * **Improvements** + * qemu: internal snapshot improvements + + The qemu internal snapshot handling code was updated to use modern com= mands + which avoid the problems the old ones had, preventing use of internal + snapshots on VMs with UEFI NVRAM. Internal snapshots of VMs using UEFI= are + now possible provided that the NVRAM is in ``qcow2`` format. + + The new code also allows better control when deleting snapshots. To pr= event + possible regressions no strict checking is done, but in case a inconsi= stent + state is encountered a log message is added:: + + warning : qemuSnapshotActiveInternalDeleteGetDevices:3841 : inconsis= tent internal snapshot state (deletion): VM=3D'snap' snapshot=3D'1727959843= ' missing=3D'vda ' unexpected=3D'' extra=3D'' + + Users are encouraged to report any occurence of the above message along + with steps they took to the upstream tracker. + * **Bug fixes** --=20 2.46.0