From: Peter Krempa Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 08:44:22 +0000 (+0200) Subject: NEWS: Mention 'manual' snapshots and FD passing for 'virsh qemu-monitor-command' X-Git-Tag: v8.2.0~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3c22f80dc6474771d2fde0e8f322d576a2aaefcc;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git NEWS: Mention 'manual' snapshots and FD passing for 'virsh qemu-monitor-command' Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark --- diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 754687ac4d..900e2702dd 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ v8.2.0 (unreleased) * **New features** + * qemu: Introduce ``manual`` disk snapshot mode + + This new mode allows users to synchronize libvirt snapshots with snapshots + which need to be done outside of libvirt e.g. when 'vhost-user-blk' is used + to back the disk. + * **Improvements** * qemu: ``VIR_MIGRATE_PARAM_TLS_DESTINATION`` now works with non-shared storage migration @@ -32,6 +38,11 @@ v8.2.0 (unreleased) specify the overrides instead of relying on the argv passthrough of the ``-set`` qemu commandline option which no longer works with new qemu. + * qemu: Allow passing file descriptors to ``virsh qemu-monitor-command`` + + Passing FDs allows users wanting to experiment with qemu driven by libvirt + use commands like ``add-fd`` properly. + * **Bug fixes** * Both build and tests should now pass on Alpine Linux or any other