From 5c73acec32067886dcaed4bc4bdb13c0ae8df421 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Ferlan Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:37:15 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Add news article for volume encryption modifications Include both the domain and storage modifications in a "Removed features" section as well as describing the improvement to allow using a raw input volume to create the luks encrypted volume. Signed-off-by: John Ferlan ACKed-by: Michal Privoznik --- docs/news.xml | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index a32d2b88a5..468d34093a 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -62,6 +62,21 @@ +
+ + + Remove support for qcow/default encrypted volumes + + + Disallow using a qcow encrypted volume for the guest and + disallow creation of the qcow or default encrypted volume + from the storage driver. Support for qcow encrypted volumes + has been phasing out since QEMU 2.3 and by QEMU 2.9 creation + of a qcow encrypted volume via qemu-img required usage of + secret objects, but that support was never added to libvirt. + + +
@@ -105,6 +120,16 @@ guest. + + + Add support to use an raw input volume for encryption + + + It is now possible to provide a raw input volume as input for + to generate a luks encrypted volume via either virsh vol-create-from + or virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom. + +