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<libvirt>
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<release version="v4.5.0" date="unreleased">
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<section title="New features">
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</section>
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<section title="Improvements">
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<change>
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<summary>
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capabilities: Provide info about host IOMMU support
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</summary>
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<description>
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Capabilities XML now provide information about host IOMMU support.
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</description>
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</change>
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</section>
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<section title="Bug fixes">
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</section>
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</release>
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<release version="v4.4.0" date="2018-06-04">
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<section title="New features">
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<change>
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<summary>
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bhyve: Support locking guest memory
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</summary>
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<description>
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Bhyve's guest memory may be wired using the
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<code><memoryBacking><locked/></memoryBacking></code>
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element.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: Provide VFIO channel I/O passthrough support
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</summary>
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<description>
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Support passthrough devices that use channel I/O based mechanism in
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a QEMU virtual machine.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: Add support for migration of VMs with non-shared storage over TLS
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</summary>
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<description>
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It's now possible to use the VIR_MIGRATE_TLS flag together with
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VIR_MIGRATE_NON_SHARED_DISK. The connection is then secured using the
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TLS environment which is setup for the migration connection.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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Add support for VM Generation ID
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</summary>
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<description>
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The VM Generatation ID exposes a 128-bit, cryptographically
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random, integer value identifier, referred to as a Globally
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Unique Identifier (GUID) to the guest in order to notify the
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guest operating system when the virtual machine is executed
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with a different configuration. Add a new domain XML processing
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and a domain capabilities feature.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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Introduce virDomainDetachDeviceAlias
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</summary>
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<description>
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This new API enables users to detach device using only its alias.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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Introduce new virConnectCompareHypervisorCPU and virConnectBaselineHypervisorCPU APIs
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</summary>
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<description>
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Unlike the old virConnectCompareCPU and virConnectBaselineCPU APIs,
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both new APIs consider capabilities of a specific hypervisor.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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Introduce SCSI persistent reservations support
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</summary>
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<description>
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The QEMU driver gained support for qemu-pr-helper which enables
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guests to issue SCSI commands for persistent reservation.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: Implement multiple screen support for virDomainScreenshot
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</summary>
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<description>
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While the virDomainScreenshot API supported multihead video cards,
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the implementation was missing. But now that QEMU implemented it
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libvirt has done as well.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: add support for vhost-vsock-device
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</summary>
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<description>
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A new vsock device was introduced, allowing communication between
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the guest and the host via the AF_VSOCK family.
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</description>
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</change>
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</section>
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<section title="Improvements">
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: Add suport for OpenGL rendering with SDL
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</summary>
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<description>
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Domains using SDL as a graphics backend will now be able to use
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OpenGL accelerated rendering.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: Add support for 'output' audio codec
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</summary>
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<description>
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Support QEMU's 'hda-output' codec advertising only a line-out for ich6
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and ich9 sound devices.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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virsh: Enhance event name completion
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</summary>
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<description>
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Implement event name completion for some commands (e.g. event,
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secret-event, pool-event and nodedev-event)
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</description>
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</change>
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</section>
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<section title="Bug fixes">
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</section>
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</release>
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<release version="v4.3.0" date="2018-05-02">
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<section title="New features">
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: Add support for the pcie-to-pci-bridge controller
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</summary>
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<description>
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Pure PCIe guests such as x86_64/q35 and aarch64/virt will now
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add this controller when traditional PCI devices are in use.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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Xen: Support setting CPU features for host-passthrough model
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</summary>
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<description>
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The CPU model presented to Xen HVM domains is equivalent to libvirt's
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host-passthrough model, although individual features can be enabled
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and disabled via the cpuid setting. The libvirt libxl driver now
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supports enabling and disabling individual features of the
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host-passthrough CPU model.
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</description>
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</change>
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</section>
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<section title="Removed features">
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<change>
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<summary>
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Xen: Drop the legacy xend-based driver
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</summary>
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<description>
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The xm/xend toolstack was deprecated in Xen 4.2 and removed
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from the Xen sources in the 4.5 development cycle. The libvirt
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driver based on xend is now removed from the libvirt sources.
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</description>
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</change>
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</section>
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<section title="Improvements">
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: Support hot plug and hot unplug of mediated devices
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</summary>
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<description>
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Libvirt now allows mediated devices to be hot plugged and hot
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unplugged from a guest rather than reporting an error that this isn't
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supported. In fact, kernel has been supporting this since 4.10.
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</description>
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</change>
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</section>
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<section title="Bug fixes">
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<change>
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<summary>
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Improve handling of device mapper targets
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</summary>
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<description>
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When starting a domain with a disk backed by a device
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mapper volume libvirt also needs to allow the storage
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backing the device mapper in CGroups. In the past
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kernel did not care, but starting from 4.16 CGroups are
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consulted on each access to the device mapper target.
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</description>
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</change>
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</section>
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</release>
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<release version="v4.2.0" date="2018-04-01">
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<section title="New features">
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<change>
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<summary>
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Support building with Python 3
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</summary>
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<description>
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Python is required to build libvirt, and up until now only Python 2
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could be used as an interpreter. All scripts used during build have
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now been made compatible with Python 3, which means both major
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releases of the language are fully supported.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: Provide ccw address support for graphics and input devices
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</summary>
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<description>
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Support the virtio-gpu-ccw device as a video device and
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virtio-{keyboard, mouse, tablet}-ccw devices as input devices
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on S390.
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</description>
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</change>
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</section>
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<section title="Improvements">
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: Add logging of guest crash information on S390
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</summary>
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<description>
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On S390, when the guest crashes and QEMU exposes the guest crash
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information, log the relevant data to the domain log file.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: use arp table of host to get the IP address of guests
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</summary>
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<description>
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Find IP address of a VM by arp table on hosts.
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If someone customizing IP address inside VM, it will be helpful.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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Xen: Remove hard-coded scheduler weight
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</summary>
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<description>
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The libxl driver was accidentally hard-coding the per-domain
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scheduler weight to 1000, silently ignoring any user-provided
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<code><shares></code> in <code><cputune></code>. The
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driver now honors <code><shares></code>, and defers setting
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a default value to Xen. Note that the Xen default is 256, so any
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domains started after this improvement will have one fourth the
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shares of previously started domains. If all domains must have
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equal CPU shares, administrators must manually set the weight of
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previously started domains to 256, or restart them.
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</description>
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</change>
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</section>
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<section title="Bug fixes">
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: TLS migration now enforces use of TLS for the NBD connection
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</summary>
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<description>
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When the VIR_MIGRATE_TLS flag was used with the migration API libvirt
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did not ensure that the NBD connection was using TLS as well. The code
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now rejects such migration as the TLS transport for NBD is not ready
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yet, but prevents a false sense of security that TLS would be used.
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The support TLS for NBD will be added soon.
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</description>
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</change>
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</section>
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</release>
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<release version="v4.1.0" date="2018-03-05">
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<section title="New features">
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<change>
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<summary>
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Added support for CAT (Cache allocation Technology)
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</summary>
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<description>
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Domain vCPU threads can now have allocated some parts of host cache
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using the <code>cachetune</code> element in <code>cputune</code>.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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Allow opening secondary drivers
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</summary>
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<description>
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Up until now it was possible to connect to only hypervisor drivers
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(e.g. qemu:///system, lxc:///, vbox:///system, and so on). The
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internal drivers (like network driver, node device driver, etc.) were
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hidden from users and users could use them only indirectly. Starting
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with this release new connection URIs are accepted. For instance
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network:///system, storage:///system and so on.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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virtlogd, virtlockd: Add support for admin protocol
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</summary>
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<description>
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These two daemons now support admin protocol through which some admin
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info can be gathered or some configuration tweaked on the fly.
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</description>
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</change>
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</section>
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<section title="Improvements">
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<change>
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<summary>
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virsh: Enhance bash completion
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</summary>
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<description>
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Implement more bash completions so that basic libvirt
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objects can be auto-completed (e.g. networks,
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interfaces, NWFilters, and so on).
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: Use VIR_ERR_DEVICE_MISSING for various hotplug/detach messages
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</summary>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: Allow showing the dump progress for memory only dump
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</summary>
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<description>
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Alter the QEMU dump-guest-memory command processing to check
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for and allow asynchronous completion which then allows for
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the virsh dump --memory-only --verbose command to display percent
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completion data.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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conf: add support for setting Chassis SMBIOS data fields
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</summary>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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libxl: add support for setting clock offset and adjustment
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</summary>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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Make port allocator global
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</summary>
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<description>
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Up until now each driver had their own port allocator module. This
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meant that info on port usage was not shared. Starting with this
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release, the port allocator module is made global and therefore
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drivers allocate ports from global pool.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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Fixed some compiler warnings that appear with GCC 8
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</summary>
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</change>
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</section>
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<section title="Bug fixes">
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: Check for unsafe migration more thoroughly
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</summary>
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<description>
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If a domain disk is stored on local filesystem (e.g. ext4) but is
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not being migrated it is very likely that domain is not able to
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run on destination. Regardless of share/cache mode.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: Fix updating device with boot order
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</summary>
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<description>
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Starting with 3.7.0 release updating any device with boot order would
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fail with 'boot order X is already used by another device' while in
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fact it was the very same device.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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virlog: determine the hostname on startup CVE-2018-6764
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</summary>
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<description>
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At later point it might not be possible or even safe to use
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getaddrinfo(). It can in turn result in a load of NSS module which
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can even be loaded from unsage guest filesystem and thus escape the
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confinment of its container.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: Rework vCPU statistics fetching
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</summary>
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<description>
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Fetching vCPU statistics was very expensive because it lead to waking
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up vCPU threads in QEMU and thus it degraded performance. The code
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was reworked so that fetching statistics does not wake up halted
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vCPUs.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: unlink memory backing file on domain shutdown
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</summary>
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<description>
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Depending on the filesystem where domain memory is stored, some files
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might have been left behind. This is not a problem on hugetlbfs, but
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it is a problem on regular filesystems like ext4.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: Fix shutting down domains in parallel
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</summary>
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<description>
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If multiple domains were being shut down in parallel, libvirtd might
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have deadlocked.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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nodedev: Update PCI mdev capabilities dynamically
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</summary>
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<description>
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PCI devices may have other nested capabilities, like SRIOV and mdev
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which depend on the device being plugged into the native vendor
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driver. However, in case such a device is directly assigned to a guest
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using VFIO driver, the device will naturally lose these capabilities
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and libvirt needs to reflect that.
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</description>
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</change>
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</section>
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</release>
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<release version="v4.0.0" date="2018-01-19">
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<section title="New features">
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<change>
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<summary>
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tools: Provide bash completion support
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</summary>
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<description>
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Both <code>virsh</code> and <code>virt-admin</code> now implement
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basic bash completion support.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: Refresh capabilities on host microcode update
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</summary>
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<description>
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A microcode update can cause the CPUID bits to change; therefore,
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the capabilities cache should be rebuilt when such an update is
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detected on the host.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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lxc: Set hostname based on container name
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</summary>
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</change>
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</section>
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<section title="Improvements">
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<change>
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<summary>
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CPU frequency reporting improvements
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</summary>
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<description>
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The CPU frequency will now be reported by <code>virsh nodeinfo</code>
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and other tools for s390 hosts; at the same time; CPU frequency has
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been disabled on aarch64 hosts because there's no way to detect it
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reliably.
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</description>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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libxl: Mark domain0 as persistent
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</summary>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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Xen: Add support for multiple IP addresses on interface devices
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</summary>
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</change>
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: Add support for hot unplugging redirdev device
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</summary>
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</change>
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</section>
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<section title="Bug fixes">
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<change>
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<summary>
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qemu: Enforce vCPU hotplug granularity constraints
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</summary>
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<description>
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QEMU 2.7 and newer don't allow guests to start unless the initial
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vCPUs count is a multiple of the vCPU hotplug granularity, so
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validate it and report an error if needed.
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</description>
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</change>
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</section>
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</release>
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<release version="v3.10.0" date="2017-12-04">
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<section title="New features">
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<change>
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<summary>
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conf: Support defining distances between virtual NUMA cells
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</summary>
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<description>
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A NUMA hardware architecture supports the notion of distances
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between NUMA cells. This can now be specified using the
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<code><distances></code> element within the NUMA cell
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configuration. Drivers which support this include Xen and QEMU.
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</description>
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|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Xen: Support defining vNUMA topology
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Xen now supports defining a virtual NUMA topology for VMs,
|
|
including specifying distances between NUMA cells.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Add the ability to configure HPT resizing for pSeries guests
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The user can now decide whether HPT (Hash Page Table) resizing
|
|
should be enabled, disabled or required instead of leaving it up to
|
|
hypervisor defaults and negotiation between the guest and the host.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Add vmcoreinfo feature
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Starting with QEMU 2.11, the guest can save kernel debug
|
|
details when this feature is enabled and the kernel supports
|
|
it. It is useful to process kernel dump with KASLR enabled,
|
|
and also provides various kernel details to crash tools.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
conf: Move the auth and encryption definitions to disk source
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Allow parsing and formatting of the <code>auth</code> and
|
|
<code>encryption</code> sub-elements to be a child of the
|
|
<code>source</code> element. This will allow adding an
|
|
<code>auth</code> sub-element to a <code>backingStore</code>
|
|
or <code>mirror</code> elements as a means to track specific
|
|
authentication and/or encryption needs.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Improvements">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
vbox: Add VirtualBox 5.2 support
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
vbox: Add support for configuring storage controllers
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The VirtualBox driver now supports the <code><controller></code>
|
|
element in the domain XML for configuring storage controllers in VBOX
|
|
VMs. Additionally, libvirt's domain XML schema was updated to allow
|
|
optional <code>model</code> attribute for <code><controller
|
|
type='ide'></code> which is used by the VBOX driver to set the
|
|
IDE controller model to be one of 'piix4', 'piix4' (default), or
|
|
'ich6'. Finally, with this change <code>dumpxml</code> generates
|
|
<code><controller></code> elements that correspond to current
|
|
VBOX VM storage controller configuration.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
vbox: Add support for attaching empty removable disks
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The VirutalBox driver now supports adding CD-ROM and floppy disk
|
|
devices that do not have the disk source specified. Previously such
|
|
devices were silently ignored.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
vbox: Add support for attaching SAS storage controllers
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
In VirtualBox, SCSI and SAS are distinct controller types whereas
|
|
libvirt does not make such distinction. Therefore, the VBOX driver was
|
|
updated to allow attaching SAS controllers via <code><controller
|
|
type='scsi' model='lsisas1068'></code> element. If there are
|
|
both SCSI and SAS controllers present in the VBOX VM, the domain XML
|
|
can associate the disk device using the <code><address></code>
|
|
element with the <code>controller</code> attribute, and optionally,
|
|
set the port via <code>unit</code> attribute.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Generate predictable paths for qemu memory backends
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
In some cases management applications need to know
|
|
paths passed to memory-backend-file objects upfront.
|
|
Libvirt now generates predictable paths so applications
|
|
can prepare the files if they need to do so.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Shareable disks work properly with recent qemu
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Recent qemu versions added image locking to avoid potential corruption
|
|
of disk images. This broke shareable disks with libvirt since the
|
|
feature was turned on by default in qemu. Libvirt now enables sharing
|
|
of those disks in qemu so that the image locking is not applied in
|
|
that case. Additionally libvirt now checks that shareable disks have
|
|
supported format (raw) to avoid metadata corruption.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Improve serial console behavior on non-x86 architectures
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
ppc64, aarch64 and s390x guests were treating the <serial>
|
|
and <console> elements differently from x86, in some cases
|
|
presenting misleading information to the user. The behavior is now
|
|
consistent across all architectures and the information reported
|
|
is always accurate.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Bug fixes">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
vbox: Do not ignore failures to attach disk devices when defining
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The <code>define</code> now fails and reports an error if any of the
|
|
<code>controller</code> or <code>disk</code> devices specified in the
|
|
domain XML fail to attach to the VirtualBox VM.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
vbox: Fix dumpxml to always output disk devices
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The VirtualBox driver was ignoring any disk devices in
|
|
<code>dumpxml</code> output if there was a SAS storage controller
|
|
attached to the VM.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
vbox: Fix dumpxml to always generate valid domain XML
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
When a VirtualBox VM has multiple disks attached, each to a different
|
|
storage controller that uses 'sd' prefix for block device names e.g.
|
|
one disk attached to SATA and one to SCSI controller, it no longer
|
|
generates XML where both would have 'sda' device name assigned.
|
|
Instead it properly assigns 'sda' and 'sdb' to those disks in the
|
|
order of appearance.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Securely pass iSCSI authentication data
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Rather than supplying the authentication data as part of the
|
|
iSCSI URL for a disk or host device, utilize the encrypted
|
|
secret object to securely pass the authentication data.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</release>
|
|
<release version="v3.9.0" date="2017-11-02">
|
|
<section title="New features">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Add capability to allow hot (un)plug of a domain watchdog device
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Allow users to set device aliases
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Users can set aliases to domain devices and thus identify them
|
|
easily.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Support multiqueue for virtio-blk
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Multiqueue support for <code>virtio-blk</code> has been available
|
|
in QEMU ever since 2.7.0, and now libvirt guests can enable it.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Add virDomainSetLifecycleAction API
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Provided a new API to allow dynamic guest lifecycle control for
|
|
guest reactions to poweroff, restart, or crash type events related
|
|
to the domain XML <code>on_poweroff</code>, <code>on_reboot</code>,
|
|
and <code>on_crash</code> elements. The
|
|
<code>virsh set-lifecycle-action</code> command was created to
|
|
control the actions.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Allow cold(un)plugging and hot(un)plugging input devices
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
net: Implement QoS for vhostuser
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Improvements">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Allow a logical volume to be create using LUKS
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
A logical volume may be created using an <code>encryption</code>
|
|
element using "luks" format. This does require a previously created
|
|
<code>secret</code> to store the passphrase used to encrypt the
|
|
volume Adding the volume to a domain can then either provide the
|
|
secret or allow the consumer in the guest to provide the passphrase
|
|
in order to decrypt the volume.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
net: Ignore auto-generated MAC address when detaching an interface
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
If the MAC address has not been specified by the user, libvirt will
|
|
try and fill in the gaps by generating one; however, for some error
|
|
paths that led to some confusing error messages, so when an
|
|
auto-generated MAC address is specified the error message will not
|
|
include the auto-generated MAC.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
net: Enable MAC address lookup for virDomainInterfaceStats
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
apparmor: Several improvements
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Changes include permitting access to data about USB devices and
|
|
<code>dnsmasq</code> instances, allowing spaces in guest names and
|
|
many more.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
cpu: Use CPU information obtained from QEMU when possible
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Recent QEMU versions can expose information about which CPU models
|
|
are available and usable on the host; libvirt will now make use of
|
|
such information whenever possible.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
hyperv: Various improvements
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The error reported when clients can't connect to Hyper-V has been
|
|
made more descriptive, and memory limits for guests are now mapped
|
|
to more appropriate libvirt equivalents.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Report QEMU error on failed migration
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Instead of reporting a generic error, ask QEMU for a more detailed
|
|
and thus hopefully more helpful one.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
vbox: Implement autoport for RDP
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
libvirt will now obtain the (dynamically allocated) RDP port number
|
|
from VirtualBox itself, avoiding conflicts between multiple guests
|
|
wanting to use RDP at the same time.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Allow rotation of small logs
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
On a host where numerous unique instances are executed per day, it's
|
|
quite possible that, even though each of the single log files are
|
|
fairly small, collectively the quantity and volume may add tens of
|
|
thousands of log files to the <code>/var/log/libvirt/qemu/</code>
|
|
directory. Removing the constraints that log have to be bigger than
|
|
100 KiB before they can be rotated solves the issue.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Bug fixes">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Fix swapped interface statistics and QoS
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Due to internal implementation, reported statistics for
|
|
some types of interfaces were swapped (RX appeared in
|
|
TX and vice versa). Similarly, QoS was set in reversed
|
|
way.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Properly resize local LUKS encrypted volume
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Resizing of a local LUKS encrypted volume will now use qemu-img
|
|
to resize the volume. This will require configuring a secret for
|
|
the LUKS encrypted volume.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Reserve PCI addresses for implicit i440fx devices
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Failing to do so causes the addresses to be considered usable by
|
|
libvirt, which means they could be assigned to more than one device
|
|
resulting in the guest failing to start.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
spec: Restart libvirtd only at the end of the upgrade process
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Use <code>%posttrans</code> to make sure <code>libvirtd</code>
|
|
is not restarted before all other components, such as the library
|
|
itself and storage / hypervisor drivers, have already been upgraded.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Security">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Ensure TLS clients always verify the server certificate
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
While it's reasonable to turn off client certificate validation,
|
|
as setting it up can be non-trivial, clients should always verify
|
|
the server certificate to avoid MITM attacks. However, libvirt was
|
|
using the same knob to control both checks, leading to
|
|
CVE-2017-1000256 / LSN-2017-0002.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</release>
|
|
<release version="v3.8.0" date="2017-10-04">
|
|
<section title="New features">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Added support for cold-(un)plug of watchdog devices
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Added support for setting IP address os usernet interfaces
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Added support for Veritas Hyperscale (VxHS) block devices
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
storage: Added new events for pool-build and pool-delete
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Improvements">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Set DAC permissions properly for spice rendernode
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
When a <code>rendernode</code> path is set for SPICE GL on
|
|
<code>qemu:///system</code>, we now correctly set DAC permissions
|
|
on the device at VM startup. This is the last remaining hurdle to
|
|
let SPICE GL work for <code>qemu:///system</code> without any
|
|
external host changes.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
nodedev: Add switchdev offload query to NIC capabilities
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Allow querying the NIC interface capabilities for the
|
|
availability of switchdev offloading (also known as
|
|
kernel-forward-plane-offload).
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
New CPU models for AMD and Intel
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
AMD EPYC and Intel Skylake-Server CPU models were added together with
|
|
their features
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Improve long waiting when saving a domain
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
While waiting for a write to disk to be finished, e.g. during save,
|
|
even simple operations like <code>virsh list</code> would be blocking
|
|
due to domain lock. This is now resolved by unlocking the domain
|
|
in places where it is not needed.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Bug fixes">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Proper units are now used in virsh manpage for dom(mem)stats
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Previously the documentation used multiples of 1000, but now it is
|
|
fixed to use multiples of 1024.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Fix error reporting when disk attachment fails
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
There was a possibility for the actual error to be overridden or
|
|
cleared during the rollback.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Fix assignment of graphics ports after daemon restart
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
This could be seen with newer kernels that have bug regarding
|
|
SO_REUSEADDR. After libvirtd was restarted it could assign already
|
|
used address to new guests which would make them fail to start. This
|
|
is fixed by marking used ports unavailable when reconnecting to
|
|
running QEMU domains.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Fix message decoding which was causing a very strange bug
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
When parsing an RPC message with file descriptors was interrupted and
|
|
had to restart, the offset of the payload was calculated badly causing
|
|
strange issues like not being able to find a domain that was not
|
|
requested.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</release>
|
|
<release version="v3.7.0" date="2017-09-04">
|
|
<section title="New features">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Add managedsave-edit commands
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Using managedsave-dumpxml, managedsave-define and managedsave-edit
|
|
commands, now we can dump and edit the XML configuration of domain
|
|
which has managedsave image.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Add migrate-getmaxdowntime command
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Currently, the maximum tolerable downtime for a domain being migrated
|
|
is write-only from libvirt, via migrate-setmaxdowntime. This
|
|
implements a complementary migrate-getmaxdowntime command
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
bhyve: Support autoport for VNC ports
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
It's no longer necessary to explicitly specify VNC port for the bhyve
|
|
guests. With the autoport feature it will be allocated automatically.
|
|
Please refer to the bhyve driver documentation for examples.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Added support for setting heads of virtio GPU
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Added support to configure reconnect timeout for chardev devices
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
When you have a TCP or UNIX chardev device and it's connected somewhere
|
|
you can configure reconnect timeout if the connection is closed.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Improvements">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Report a clear error when dropping a VM during startup
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
"Failed to load config for domain 'DOMNAME'" is now reported if a VM
|
|
config can't be parsed for some reason, and thus provides a clear
|
|
indication for users (and devs).
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
apparmor: Update for QEMU 2.10 compatibility
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Starting with QEMU 2.10, disk images and NVRAM files get
|
|
automatically locked to prevent them from being corrupted; however,
|
|
file locking needs to be explicitly allowed through
|
|
<code>virt-aa-helper</code> or AppArmor will reject the requests and
|
|
the guest will not be able to run.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
virsh: List Unix sockets in 'domdisplay' output
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
VNC and SPICE graphics can use Unix sockets instead of TCP/IP sockets
|
|
as connection endpoints, but such a configuration was not handled
|
|
correctly by <code>virsh domdisplay</code>, causing the respective
|
|
endpoints to be missing from the output.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Don't check whether offline migration is safe
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Since offline migration only copies the guest definition to the
|
|
destination host, data corruption is not a concern and the operation
|
|
can always be performed safely.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
virt-host-validate: Fix IOMMU detection on ppc64
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Bug fixes">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Better support for international domain names (with wide characters)
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
There were some issues with multi-byte domains getting lost
|
|
on daemon restart due to truncation, so the code now handles
|
|
multi-byte names a bit better.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Support long domain names with namespaces
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Domains with extremely long names would fail to start due to
|
|
temporary namespace paths being created with the whole name.
|
|
The path is now generated with shortened name instead.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Tolerate missing emulator binary during libvirtd restart
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
For some time libvirt required qemu capabilities being present when
|
|
parsing VM configs during startup. As a side effect VM configs would
|
|
fail to parse and thus vanish, if the emulator binary would be
|
|
uninstalled or broken. Libvirt now tolerates when capabilities
|
|
are missing during startup.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Prevent pSeries guests from disappearing in some situations
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
pSeries guest would disappear if any of the host devices they were
|
|
configured to use was not available during libvirtd startup, which
|
|
could easily happen for SR-IOV Virtual Functions. This scenario is
|
|
now handled correctly.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Honor <on_reboot/> setting
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The setting was accepted by the parser, but not actually implemented.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Fix --verbose option for all daemons
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Since v3.0.0, the option had been ignored by all libvirt daemons
|
|
(<code>libvirtd</code>, <code>virtlogd</code> and
|
|
<code>virtlockd</code>); it's now working as intended once again.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</release>
|
|
<release version="v3.6.0" date="2017-08-02">
|
|
<section title="New features">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
hyperv: Implement virDomainSetMemory and virDomainSendKey APIs
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Support multiple PHBs for pSeries guests
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
pSeries guests can now have multiple PHBs (PCI Host Bridges), which
|
|
show up as separate PCI domains in the guest. To create additional
|
|
PHBs, simply add PCI controllers with model <code>pci-root</code>
|
|
to the guest configuration.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Isolate hostdevs on pSeries guests
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
To enable better error reporting and recovery, unrelated hostdevs
|
|
will now be automatically isolated on pSeries guests by placing them
|
|
on separate PHBs (PCI Host Bridges).
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Improvements">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: platform serial devices can now use chardev features
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
QEMU VMs that depend on platform serial devices can now use
|
|
QEMU's <code>-chardev</code> option, which enables access to
|
|
advanced features like log file configuration. This applies
|
|
to the default serial devices for arm, aarch64, and some ppc
|
|
configurations.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Require use of GCC 4.4 or Clang compilers
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
We only ever test libvirt with GCC or Clang (which
|
|
provides a GCC compatible compilation environment).
|
|
Between them, these compilers cover every supported
|
|
operating system platform, including Windows.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: shared disks with directsync cache should be safe for migration
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
At present shared disks can be migrated with either readonly or
|
|
<code>cache=none</code>. But <code>cache=directsync</code> should be
|
|
safe for migration, because both <code>cache=directsync</code> and
|
|
<code>cache=none</code> don't use the host page cache, and
|
|
<code>cache=direct</code> write through qemu block layer cache.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Handle hotplug change on VLAN configuration using OVS
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Libvirt was taught to handle VLAN change for running OVS interface.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Bug fixes">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Use vCPU 'node-id' property and pass it back to qemu
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
vCPU properties gathered from query-hotpluggable-cpus need to be
|
|
passed back to QEMU. As QEMU did not use the node-id property until
|
|
now and libvirt forgot to pass it back properly (it was parsed but
|
|
not passed around) we did not honor this.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Miscellaneous stream fixes
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
After introducing sparse stream features there were still some known
|
|
bugs left. Those are fixed in this release.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Miscellaneous domain NS fixes
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Libvirt starts qemu domains in separate Linux namespaces for a while
|
|
now. However, there were still some bugs lingering. For instance
|
|
libvirt did not know how to handle file based bind mounts.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Various CPU driver improvements
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
There were some minor bugs when using 'host-model' CPU.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</release>
|
|
<release version="v3.5.0" date="2017-07-04">
|
|
<section title="New features">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Add support for loadparm for a boot device
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Add an optional boot parameter 'loadparm' for a boot device.
|
|
Loadparm is an 8 byte parameter that, when present, is queried by
|
|
S390 guests via sclp or diag 308. Linux guests on S390 use it to
|
|
select a boot entry.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Support controlling how video devices are exposed to the bhyve guests
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The <code>vgaconf</code> attribute was added to <code>video</code>'s
|
|
<code>driver</code> element. Possible values are: <code>on</code>,
|
|
<code>off</code>, and <code>io</code>. It controls the way how
|
|
bhyve exposes video devices to its guests; various guest OSes might
|
|
require different settings to boot properly.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Add support for live updates of coalesce settings
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Users can now use <code>virsh update-device</code> to change
|
|
the coalesce settings of an interfaces while the domain is
|
|
running.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Allow VirtIO devices to use vIOMMU
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
It is now possible to turn on IOTBL for the vIOMMU and have VirtIO
|
|
devices use it, provided they have been configured appropriately.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Improvements">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: block copy job can be used with persistent domains
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Until now it was not possible to use block copy with persistent VMs.
|
|
In use cases where it's not required to recover the job after VM
|
|
shutdown, it's possible to specify VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY_TRANSIENT_JOB
|
|
flag to start the copy job.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
JSON pseudo-protocol backing store parser supports new format of qemu 2.9
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
QEMU 2.9 modified a few structures corresponding to the JSON format
|
|
of specifying a backing store for a disk image. Libvirt now implements
|
|
the new format.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Capabilities now include info about host's CAT settings
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Various information about resource control from the host is
|
|
gathered and presented in capabilities if available.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
apparmor: Several improvements
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Allow access to Ceph config, EFI firmware on both x86_64 and
|
|
aarch64, device tree on ppc64 and more.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Support host-model on POWER9 machines
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Bug fixes">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: snapshot: retrieve image metadata from user provided files
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Disk images of an external snapshot created with
|
|
VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_REUSE_EXT flag specified would not be
|
|
scanned for metadata after recent changes.
|
|
|
|
The metadata is necessary to allow keeping relative paths between
|
|
images when doing a block-commit.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Parse decimal numbers in a locale-independent way
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Some locales, such as <code>de_DE</code> and <code>pt_BR</code>,
|
|
use comma rather than dot to separate the integer part from the
|
|
fractional part of a decimal number; however, several data sources
|
|
such as the kernel use a locale-independent representation and need
|
|
to be treated accordingly.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Support compilation with newer compiler and libc versions
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Several fixes have been included to make compilation with Clang
|
|
4.0.0, GCC 7.1 and glibc >= 2.25.90 possible.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Query name for vhost-user interfaces at runtime
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
This makes it possible to use <code>virsh</code> subcommands such
|
|
as <code>domiflist</code> and <code>domifstat</code> on vhost-user
|
|
interfaces.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Set MTU for hotplugged interfaces correctly
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
When hotplugging a network interface, the MTU was only set on the
|
|
guest side. Set it on the host side as well.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Forbid updating MTU for interfaces of running guests
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The MTU setting can't be modified while the guest is running, so any
|
|
attempt to alter it at runtime will now result in an error rather
|
|
than being silently ignored.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Fix specifying QXL heads with older QEMU releases
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Specifying the number of QXL heads was not working correctly for
|
|
QEMU releases older than 1.6.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Fix migration to older libvirt/QEMU versions
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
When the guest is started, libvirt updates the CPU definition to
|
|
reflect the actual CPU features to enforce ABI. We need to send
|
|
original and updated CPU definition in order to support migration
|
|
to older libvirt/QEMU versions. Only the updated CPU definition
|
|
was sent to destination.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</release>
|
|
<release version="v3.4.0" date="2017-06-02">
|
|
<section title="New features">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Improved streams to efficiently transfer sparseness
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
New extension to virStream was implemented so that
|
|
virStorageVolDownload and virStorageVolUpload can preserve file
|
|
sparseness.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
I/O APIC type can be specified for QEMU/KVM domains
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The <code>ioapic</code> tag was added to domain
|
|
<code>features</code>, so the type of the I/O APIC can now
|
|
be specified (e.g. putting it in userspace for KVM domains).
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
The reason for VM shutdown is reported, if known
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
QEMU 2.10 will be able to report the reason for shutting
|
|
down (whether that was caused by the guest or not), and
|
|
libvirt is prepared for that and reports that information in
|
|
its shutdown event as well, if it is known.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Improvements">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Repository now has new README.md file
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The new file uses markdown syntax, so it looks better on
|
|
github and possibly other web pages, but it has also more
|
|
useful information. The old README is now symlink to the
|
|
new file.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Use GICv2 by default for aarch64/virt TCG guests
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The emulated GICv3 has some limitations that make it unusable as a
|
|
default; use GICv2 until they're sorted out. This change makes it
|
|
once again possible to run aarch64/virt guests on a x86_64 host
|
|
without having to tweak their configuration.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Additional capabilities for the node_device module
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Introduce two new capabilities to the node_device module. The first
|
|
is for CCW devices, most common on the S390 architecture. The second
|
|
is for fibre channel-backed SCSI devices and exposes the
|
|
fc_remote_port sub-capability to SCSI target devices.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Node devices now report Mediated device capabilities
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Endpoint devices support new <code>mdev</code> capability
|
|
and their parents now report the supported types in new
|
|
<code>mdev_types</code> capability.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Capabilities now report information about host caches
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
If supported in the kernel, host capabilities will now list
|
|
L3 caches. The code for other levels was added as well, but
|
|
only L3 caches are reported currently.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
POWER9 CPU model was added
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
It is now properly reported in host capabilities.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
libxl: NUMA sibling distances are now reported in host capabilities
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
VMDK version 3 files are now properly detected
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Interrupt remapping and Extended interrupt mode for IOMMU devices
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
These two new features can now be controlled with new
|
|
<code><driver intremap='on/off' eim='on/off'/></code>
|
|
tag for <code>iommu</code> devices.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Graphics in libxl domains now have default addresses
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Even though there were default addresses before this change,
|
|
they were not saved in the XML. It is now possible to see
|
|
and control the listen addresses properly.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Default USB controllers are now added for devices in libxl domains
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Even though they were added automatically when USB device
|
|
was attached, they could've been missing in some other
|
|
cases. The logic is now fixed so there are always USB
|
|
controllers, even if there was none of them in the specified
|
|
XML.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Limits for RPC messages were increased
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Hitting the RPC limits we have is easier every day, so they
|
|
were increased once again and some guessing logic was
|
|
improved as well. It is now possible to get more stats than
|
|
ever using the <code>virConnectGetAllDomainStats()</code>
|
|
call and push through even bigger requests and replies for
|
|
all APIs.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Bug fixes">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Create memory_backing_dir on startup
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Libvirt's policy is that directories are created on startup if
|
|
they don't exist. We've missed this one.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
PCIe 4.0 cards now report proper link speeds
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
It could happen that the link speed for PCIe devices was not
|
|
properly reported or the nodedev-dumpxml just failed. That
|
|
was due to mistake in the field width, but should now work
|
|
properly.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Do not report errors on shutdown
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
For some users, in some rare cases, it could happen that
|
|
there was an error message "internal error: End of file from
|
|
qemu monitor" in the logs even though no problem happened.
|
|
The detection of these false positives was improved and such
|
|
errors should not show any more.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
User-specified UNIX socket paths for virtio channels should not be reset
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
It could happen, in some cases, that libvirt would mistake a
|
|
user-specified path for its own generated one and thus
|
|
remove it from the XML. The detection of such addresses was
|
|
improved now.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Fix address reservation during RNG hot-plug
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
When error occurred in a specific point in time during the
|
|
hot-plug of an RNG device, it could happen that an address
|
|
was released even though another device was already using
|
|
it, making it possible to hot-plug another device with that
|
|
address, effectively having duplicated addresses in the XML.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</release>
|
|
<release version="v3.3.0" date="2017-05-05">
|
|
<section title="New features">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
net: Add support for coalesce settings
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Enabling data batching through these settings can improve network
|
|
performance for guests.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Add support for guest CPU cache specification
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
This features allows fine-grained control of the cache behavior
|
|
of the guest CPU.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Add support for the qemu-xhci USB controller
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Improvements">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
hyperv: Support Hyper-V 2012 and newer
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Starting with Hyper-V 2012 the API has changed causing the existing
|
|
driver to be unable to send and process requests properly. This has
|
|
been resolved by adding abstractions to handle the differences and
|
|
ease handling such breaks if they happen in the future.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
libxl: Add support for nested HVM domains
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Xen has supported nested HVM domains since version 4.4. The
|
|
libvirt libxl driver now supports nested HVM domains by
|
|
specifying the host-passthrough CPU mode when defining a
|
|
domain.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Implement ACPI support for aarch64 guests
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Up until this point, ACPI support was only advertised for x86_64
|
|
guests and disabling it for aarch64 guests was not possible at all.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
vz: Add support for changing the number of vCPUs
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Automatically choose the best USB controller for guests
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The recently introduced qemu-xhci USB controller is the best choice
|
|
for both ppc64 and aarch64 guests, so use it by default on those
|
|
architectures if available.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
daemon: Increase default task limit for libvirtd
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The default number of tasks for the pids cgroup controller is 512,
|
|
which libvirtd can quickly bump into when starting lots of guests.
|
|
Raise the limit to a more reasonable 32768.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
docs: Include man pages describing key code names and values
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
virsh: Report initialization errors
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Sometimes virsh might be unable to start: when that happens, report
|
|
useful diagnostics instead of failing silently.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Bug fixes">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
nss: Don't require a network restart for libvirt_guest
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Previously, the libvirt_guest NSS module would only work properly
|
|
after the corresponding network had been restarted; now newly
|
|
started guests will be reported correctly right away.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
storage: Remove unavailable transient pools after restart
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Solve an issue where transient storage pools would be stuck in an
|
|
unmanageable state if the source disappeared and libvirtd was
|
|
subsequently restarted.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
storage: Fix capacity value for LUKS encrypted volumes
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The 'capacity' value (e.g. guest logical size) for a LUKS volume is
|
|
smaller than the 'physical' value of the file in the file system, so
|
|
we need to account for that.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Fix regression when hyperv/vendor_id feature is used
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Guests using the feature would not be started at all; it is now
|
|
possible to start them as expected.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Do not crash on USB address with no port and invalid bus
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
crypto: Always pad data before encrypting it
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
If this step is not performed, when the data length matches the
|
|
chunk size the decryption routines will misinterpret the last byte
|
|
of data as the padding length and fail to decode it correctly.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</release>
|
|
<release version="v3.2.0" date="2017-04-02">
|
|
<section title="New features">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
The virt-host-validate tool now supports bhyve hypervisor
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Introduce NVDIMM memory model
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
NVDIMM is new type of memory introduced into QEMU 2.6. The idea is
|
|
that we have a non-volatile memory module that keeps the data
|
|
persistent across domain reboots and offers much faster data
|
|
accesses. However, due to a bug in QEMU, this feature is not enabled
|
|
for QEMUs older than 2.9.0.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Introduce support for generic PCIe Root Ports
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
For new controllers, a generic device (pcie-root-port) will be used
|
|
by default instead of the Intel-specific device (ioh3420), provided
|
|
the QEMU binary supports it.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Add support for checking guest CPU ABI compatibility
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
When migrating a domain to a different host, restoring a domain from
|
|
a file or reverting a snapshot libvirt will make sure the guest CPU
|
|
QEMU presents to the guest OS exactly matches the one provided on
|
|
the source host (or before the domain's state was saved). This
|
|
enhanced check may also be requested when starting a new domain to
|
|
ensure the virtual CPU exactly matches the one specified in the XML.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Add support to migrate using TLS
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Add the ability to migrate QEMU guests using TLS via a new flag
|
|
VIR_MIGRATE_TLS or virsh migrate '--tls' option. Requires using at
|
|
least QEMU 2.9.0 in order to work properly.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: add mediated devices framework support
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Recent kernel version introduced new mediated device framework, so
|
|
provide an initial support of this framework for libvirt, mainly by
|
|
introducing a new host device type in the XML.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Add support for setting TSC frequency
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Setting TSC frequency is required to enable migration for domains
|
|
with 'invtsc' CPU feature turned on.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Add support for block device threshold event
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
When using thin provisioning, management tools need to resize the
|
|
disk in certain cases. To avoid having them to poll disk usage
|
|
this version introduces an event which will be fired when a given
|
|
offset of the storage is written by the hypervisor. Together with the
|
|
API it allows registering thresholds for given storage backing
|
|
volumes and this event will then notify management if the threshold
|
|
is exceeded. Currently only the qemu driver supports this.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
bhyve: Add support for UEFI boot ROM, VNC, and USB tablet
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The bhyve driver now supports booting using the UEFI boot ROM,
|
|
so non-FreeBSD guests that support UEFI could be booted without
|
|
using an external boot loader like grub-bhyve. Video is also
|
|
supported now, allowing to connect to guests via VNC and use
|
|
an USB tablet as an input device. Please refer to
|
|
the driver page for domain XML examples.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Improvements">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Detect host CPU model by asking QEMU on x86_64
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Previously, libvirt detected the host CPU model using CPUID
|
|
instruction, which caused libvirt to detect a lot of CPU features
|
|
that are not supported by QEMU/KVM. Asking QEMU makes sure we
|
|
don't start it with unsupported features.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
perf: Add more perf statistics
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Add support to get the count of cpu clock time, task clock time,
|
|
page faults, context switches, cpu migrations, minor page faults,
|
|
major page faults, alignment faults, emulation faults by
|
|
applications running on the platform.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Write hyperv crash information into vm log
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
qemu's implementation of the hyperv panic notifier now reports
|
|
information about the crash from the guest os. Starting with this
|
|
version, libvirt logs the information to the vm log file for possible
|
|
debugging.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Bug fixes">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
QEMU: Use adaptive timeout for connecting to monitor
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
When starting qemu, libvirt waits for qemu to create the monitor
|
|
socket which libvirt connects to. Historically, there was sharp 30
|
|
second timeout after which the qemu process was killed. This
|
|
approach is suboptimal as in some scenarios with huge amounts of
|
|
guest RAM it can take a minute or more for kernel to allocate and
|
|
zero out pages for qemu. The timeout is now flexible and computed by
|
|
libvirt at domain startup.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Overwrite (clear) 2 KB instead of just 512 bytes when initializing logical device
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Describe the logical backend requirements better for pool-create-as
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</release>
|
|
<release version="v3.1.0" date="2017-03-03">
|
|
<section title="New features">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
storage: Add Virtuozzo storage backend storage pool
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Add new storage backend to support pool and volume management
|
|
within the Virtuozzo Storage environment. Virtuozzo Storage is
|
|
a highly available distributed software defined storage with
|
|
built-in replication and disaster recovery.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Add support for memory backing with file source
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Add support in numa topology for file source inside memory backing
|
|
(hugepages are not needed) Three new elements
|
|
<source/>,<access/> and <allocation/> were added
|
|
to <memoryBacking/> element. Also new configuration parameter
|
|
<code>memory_backing_dir</code> was added to qemu.conf.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
network: make openvswitch call timeout configurable
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Adding the ability to specify the timeout value in seconds for
|
|
openvswitch calls in the libvirtd configuration file.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
bhyve: add e1000 NIC support
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Add support for e1000 NIC. Previously, the only available option
|
|
was <code>virtio-net</code>.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
libxl: add tunneled migration support
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Add tunneled migration to libxl driver, which is always capable of
|
|
strong encryption and doesn't require any extra network connection
|
|
other than what's required for remote access of libvirtd.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: add rendernode argument
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Add a new attribute 'rendernode' to <gl> spice element.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
nodedev: add drm capability
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Add a new 'drm' capability for Direct Rendering Manager (DRM)
|
|
devices, providing device type information.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Add API for individual/specific vCPU hotplug
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The new API allows selecting specific vCPUs to be added/removed from
|
|
the VM. The existing APIs allowed only adding/removing from the end
|
|
which did not play well with NUMA.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Improvements">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
virsh: pool-list: allow both --uuid and --name in one command
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Adjust the virsh-pool command to support the --uuid and/or --name
|
|
options in order to print just the --name and/or --uuid of pools.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Introduce MTU to domain <interface/> and <network>
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Allow setting MTU size for some types of domain interface
|
|
and network.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
libxl: improve support for <timer> configurations
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Add support for multiple timers. Extend the tsc timer to
|
|
support the emulate mode. Improve conversion of timer XML
|
|
to/from xl.cfg.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
storage: modularize the storage driver
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Split up the storage driver backends into loadable modules so that
|
|
binary distributions don't have to compromise on shipping the storage
|
|
driver with all backends which may pull in too many dependencies.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Bug fixes">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
nodedev: Fabric name must not be required for fc_host capability
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
fabric_name is one of many fc_host attributes in Linux that is
|
|
optional and left to the low-level driver to decide if it is
|
|
implemented. For example the zfcp device driver does not provide a
|
|
fabric name for an fcp host. The requirement for the existence of
|
|
a fabric name has been removed by making it optional.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
bhyve: change address allocation schema for SATA disks
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Previously, the bhyve driver assigned PCI addresses to SATA disks
|
|
directly rather than assigning that to a controller and
|
|
using SATA addresses for disks. It was implemented this way
|
|
because bhyve has no notion of an explicit SATA controller.
|
|
However, as this doesn't match libvirt's understanding of
|
|
disk addresses, the bhyve driver was changed to follow
|
|
the common schema and have PCI addresses for SATA controllers
|
|
and SATA addresses for disks. If you're having issues
|
|
because of this, it's recommended to edit the domain's XML
|
|
and remove <address type='pci'> from the <disk>
|
|
elements with <target bus='sata'/> and let libvirt
|
|
regenerate it properly.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
libxl: maximum memory fixes
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Fix reporting of domain maximum memory. Fix setting dom0
|
|
maximum memory.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
libxl: fix disk detach when <driver> not specified
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
libxl: fix dom0 autoballooning with Xen 4.8
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Allow empty script path to <interface/>
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Historically, this was always allowed. Unfortunately, due to some
|
|
rework done for 1.3.2 release a bug was dragged in which suddenly
|
|
stop allowing domain with such configuration to start.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</release>
|
|
<release version="v3.0.0" date="2017-01-17">
|
|
<section title="New features">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Domain events for metadata content changes
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</summary>
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<description>
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The domain events framework has a new event ID that can
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be used to get notifications when domain metadata content
|
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changes.
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</description>
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</change>
|
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<change>
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<summary>
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Event notifications for the secret object
|
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</summary>
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<description>
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The secret object now supports event notifications, covering
|
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lifcycle changes and secret value changes.
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</description>
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</change>
|
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<change>
|
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<summary>
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New localPtr attribute for "ip" element in network XML
|
|
</summary>
|
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</change>
|
|
<change>
|
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<summary>
|
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qemu: Support QEMU group I/O throttling
|
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</summary>
|
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<description>
|
|
Add the capability to allow group I/O throttling via a new
|
|
domain <disk> <iotune> subelement "group_name"
|
|
to allow sharing I/O throttling quota between multiple drives.
|
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</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
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<summary>
|
|
nss: Introduce libvirt_guest
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
New <code>libvirt_guest</code> nss module that translates libvirt
|
|
guest names into IP addresses.
|
|
</description>
|
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</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
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daemon: Add support for runtime logging settings adjustment
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Logging-related settings like log outputs and filters can now be
|
|
adjusted during runtime using the admin interface without the
|
|
necessity of the daemon's restart.
|
|
</description>
|
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</change>
|
|
<change>
|
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<summary>
|
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storage: Add virStorageVolInfoFlags API
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Add the API to support using the VIR_STORAGE_VOL_GET_PHYSICAL
|
|
flag in order to return the host physical size in bytes
|
|
of the image container in the allocation field of the
|
|
_virStorageVolInfo structure. The --physical flag has been
|
|
added to the virsh vol-info command to access the data.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
libxl: Implement virDomainGetMaxVcpus API
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
storage: Add overwrite flag checking for logical pool
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Add support for the OVERWRITE flags for the logical storage
|
|
backend including checking for existing data on the target
|
|
volumes when building a new logical pool on target volume(s).
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Add support for guest CPU configuration on s390(x)
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Improvements">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
perf: Add more perf statistics
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Add support to get the count of branch instructions
|
|
executed, branch misses, bus cycles, stalled frontend
|
|
cpu cycles, stalled backend cpu cycles, and ref cpu
|
|
cycles by applications running on the platform.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
conf: Display <physical> for volume xml
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Add a display of the <physical> size of a disk
|
|
volume in the output of the volume XML.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Use virtio-pci by default for aarch64 mach-virt guests
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
virtio-pci provides several advantages over virtio-mmio, such
|
|
as the ability to hotplug devices and improved performance.
|
|
While opting in to virtio-pci has been possible for a while,
|
|
newly-defined guests will now use it automatically.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
vbox: remove support for VirtualBox 3.x and older
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Those old VirtualBox versions have been unsupported by
|
|
upstream for a long time and the API of 4.0 and newer has
|
|
diverged enough to require code abstractions to handle differences.
|
|
Removing support for those old versions drops lots of code from
|
|
the driver and simplifies the logic to ease implementation of new
|
|
features going forward.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
virsh: pool-info: introduce option --bytes
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Add option --bytes to virsh pool-info in order ti allow display
|
|
of units in bytes rather than default of human readable output.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
scsi: Add parent wwnn/wwpn or fabric capability for createVport
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Improve the algorithm searching for the parent scsi_host device
|
|
for vHBA/NPIV scsi_host creation. Rather than supplying the
|
|
"parent" by name, it's now possible to define the parent by
|
|
it's wwnn/wwpn or fabric_wwn in the node device create XML or
|
|
the storage pool XML.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: aggregate pcie-root-ports onto multiple functions of a slot
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
When pcie-root-ports are added to pcie-root in order to
|
|
provide a place to connect PCI Express endpoint devices,
|
|
libvirt now aggregates multiple root ports together onto the
|
|
same slot (up to 8 per slot) in order to conserve slots.
|
|
Using this method, it's possible to connect more than 200
|
|
endpoint devices to a guest that uses PCIe without requiring
|
|
setup of any PCIe switches.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Bug fixes">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
lxc: fix accidental killing of containers during libvirtd restart
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The libvirt_lxc process was previously not moved into the
|
|
container scope. As a result, if systemd reloads its config
|
|
after a container is started, when libvirtd is later restarted
|
|
it will accidentally kill the containers.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Correct GetBlockInfo values
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
For an active domain, correct the physical value provided for
|
|
a raw sparse file backed storage and the allocation value provided
|
|
for a qcow2 file backed storage that hasn't yet been opened on
|
|
the domain.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Make virtio console usable on ppc64 guests
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The chardev detection code has been improved and can now handle this
|
|
configuration properly.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Enable mount namespace
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
To avoid funny races with udev relabelling devices under our hands and
|
|
to enhance security, libvirt now spawns each qemu process with its own
|
|
<code>/dev</code>.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
storage: Fix implementation of no-overwrite for file system backend
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Fix file system storage backend implementation of the OVERWRITE
|
|
flags to be consistent between code and documentation. Add checks
|
|
to ensure that when building a new file system on a target volume
|
|
that there is not something already on the disk in a format that
|
|
libvirt can recognize.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Create hugepage path on per domain basis
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Historically, all hugepage enabled domains shared the same path under
|
|
hugetlbfs. This left libvirt unable to correctly set security labels
|
|
on it. With this release, however, each domain is put into a
|
|
separate path which is also correctly labeled.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
conf: Reject domains with duplicate drive addresses
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Reject duplicate drive addresses for disks and hostdevs at
|
|
domain definition.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
libxl: reverse defaults on HVM net device attach
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Fixes network interface attach for HVM domains when no model is
|
|
specified. Emulated hotplug isn't yet supported and hence we should
|
|
default to the general working scenario.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
libxl: always enable pae for x86_64 HVM
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
By default pae is disabled in libxl. Without an explicit <pae/>
|
|
setting in the domain <features> configuration, an x86_64 HVM
|
|
domain would be get an i686 environment. pae should always be enabled
|
|
for x86_64 HVM domains.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Fix XML dump of autogenerated websocket
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
As a result autogenerated websocket port is regenerated on domain restore,
|
|
migration and such as it should be.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</release>
|
|
<release version="v2.5.0" date="2016-12-04">
|
|
<section title="New features">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
shmem: Add support for additional models
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The shmem device can now utilize QEMU's ivshmem-plain and
|
|
ivshmem-doorbell, more modern versions of ivshmem.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
vbox: Add VirtualBox 5.1 support
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
libssh: New transport
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The new libssh transport allows one to connect to a running
|
|
libvirtd via SSH, using the libssh library; for example:
|
|
<code>qemu+libssh://server/system</code>.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
vhost-scsi: Add support scsi_host hostdev passthrough
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Add the capability to pass through a scsi_host HBA and the
|
|
associated LUNs to the guest.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Allow debugging of gluster volumes in qemu
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Users can now enable debug logging for native gluster
|
|
volumes in qemu using the "gluster_debug_level" option in qemu.conf
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Pre-allocate memory slots for memory hotplug
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
Slot numbers for memory devices are now automatically allocated and
|
|
thus persistent. In addition slot numbers can be specified without
|
|
providing a base address, which simplifies user configuration
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
qemu: Express devices will be placed on PCIe bus by default
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
For machine types that use a PCI Express root bus
|
|
(e.g. x86_64/Q35 and aarch64/virt), any unaddressed PCI
|
|
device that is an Express device (all virtio-1.0 devices,
|
|
e1000e, nec-xhci, vfio assigned devices) will be placed on
|
|
an Express controller (i.e. a pcie-root-port) instead of a
|
|
legacy PCI controller (i.e. pci-bridge) with the root ports
|
|
added as needed.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Improvements">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
docs: Better documentation for migration APIs and flags
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
vbox: Address thread safety issues
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
virsh: Add support for passing an alternative persistent XML to migrate command
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
vhostuser: Allow hotplug of multiqueue devices
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
NEWS: Switch to an improved format
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
List user-visible changes instead of single commits for a better
|
|
high-level overview of differences between libvirt releases.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
website: Modernize layout and branding
|
|
</summary>
|
|
<description>
|
|
The libvirt website looked very cluttered and outdated; it has now
|
|
been completely overhauled, resulting in a design that's better
|
|
organized and more pleasant to look at.
|
|
</description>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
<section title="Bug fixes">
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
vz: Fix migration in P2P mode
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Forbid newline character in names of some libvirt objects
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
<change>
|
|
<summary>
|
|
Fix compilation on macOS
|
|
</summary>
|
|
</change>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</release>
|
|
</libvirt>
|