From 0bd01ef765a637b149105d9a5e26c218d83d6eae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Krempa Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:06:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: Mention qcow2 'data-file', block NVRAM, and internal snapshot reversion 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 specified + 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. When + qcow2 is used as the format, the images are now also auto-populated from the + template. + * **Bug fixes** + * qemu: Fix reversion and inactive deletion of internal snapshots with UEFI 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 inactive + deletion didn't work properly as they didn't consider the NVRAM qcow2 file. + v10.9.0 (2024-11-01) ====================