From 92e78dab34e841ca9543a0e28069a53a902787b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Privoznik Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 10:25:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: Document my contributions for upcoming release Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa --- NEWS.rst | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 20541c6c6e..893ad6f370 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ v8.9.0 (unreleased) * **New features** + * qemu: Core Scheduling support + + To avoid side channel attacks, the Linux kernel allows creating groups of + processes that trust each other and thus can be scheduled to run on + hyperthreads of a CPU core at the same time. This is now implemented for + QEMU domains too (see ``sched_core`` knob in qemu.conf), although not + enabled by default, just yet. + * **Improvements** * Add ``vendor`` attribute for CPU models in domain capabilities @@ -37,6 +45,12 @@ v8.9.0 (unreleased) The channel and redirect devices supported by the hypervisor are now reported in domain capabilities. + * meson: Bump minimal required meson version + + Newer meson versions deprecate some functions used. These were replaced + with their newer counterparts and the minimal required mesion version was + bumped to 0.56.0. + * **Bug fixes** * qemu: Disable all blocker features in CPU baseline @@ -54,6 +68,14 @@ v8.9.0 (unreleased) In 8.8.0 release libvirt daemon would crash after it was restarted during an active outgoing migration. + * qemu: Refresh state after restore from a save image + + When a domain is restored from a saved image, libvirt now queries QEMU for + those parts of runtime information that were not part of the save image. + For instance: MAC address of a macvtap NICs, tray state of CD-ROMs, + allocated size of virtio-mem, and others. + + v8.8.0 (2022-10-03) ===================