From ad231189ab948f82b8f2288250df088d9718bb7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yanqiu Zhang Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 09:06:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] news.html: Add 3 new features Add 'virtio packed' in 6.3.0, 'virDomainGetHostnameFlags' and 'Panic Crashloaded event' for 6.1.0. Signed-off-by: Yanqiu Zhang Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani --- NEWS.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 7baf742e03..232387ebdc 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -210,6 +210,11 @@ v6.3.0 (2020-05-05) (Cache Flush on Privilege Change), SBBC (Speculation Barrier Bounds Checking) and IBS (Indirect Branch Speculation). + * qemu: Add support for virtio packed option + + The ``packed`` attribute controls if QEMU should try to use packed + virtqueues. Possible values are ``on`` or ``off``. + * **Improvements** * qemu: Allow checkpoint redefine for offline VMs @@ -402,6 +407,19 @@ v6.1.0 (2020-03-03) This device, available starting from QEMU 5.0, is limited to pSeries guests. + * qemu: support Panic Crashloaded event handling + + The pvpanic device now supports a 'crashloaded' event, which is emitted + when a guest panic has occurred but has already been handled by the guest + itself. + + * qemu: Implement virDomainGetHostnameFlags + + The ``--source`` argument to ``virsh domhostname`` can be used to specify + what data source to use for the domain hostnames. Currently, in addition + to the 'agent', libvirt can also use 'lease' information from dnsmasq to + get the hostname. + * **Improvements** * qemu: Image format probing is allowed in certain cases