From: Peter Krempa Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:59:07 +0000 (+0100) Subject: NEWS: Mention snapshot quiesce rollback bugfix X-Git-Tag: v7.1.0-rc2~12 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=096c73aa3333a017ecdd861d5d21da08e63d76a5;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git NEWS: Mention snapshot quiesce rollback bugfix Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko --- diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 440dbf2601..8d639253ff 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -51,6 +51,20 @@ v7.1.0 (unreleased) * **Bug fixes** + * qemu: Fix disk quiescing rollback when creating external snapshots + + If the qemu guest agent call to freeze filesystems failed when creating + an external snapshot with ``VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_QUIESCE`` flag the + filesystems would be unconditionally thawed. This could cause problems when + the filesystems were frozen by an explicit call to ``virDomainFSFreeze`` + since the guest agent then rejects any further freeze attempts once are + filesystems frozen, an explicit freeze followed by a quiesced snapshot + would fail and thaw filesystems. + + Users are also encouraged to use ``virDomainFSFreeze/Thaw`` manually instead + of relying on ``VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_QUIESCE`` if they need finer + grained control. + v7.0.0 (2021-01-15) ===================