From: Peter Krempa Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 16:35:05 +0000 (+0100) Subject: NEWS: Mention synchronous copy job additions X-Git-Tag: v8.0.0-rc1~339 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4cc91f26d05496ff2b09038d648f0249c3154193;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git NEWS: Mention synchronous copy job additions Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko --- diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 4d690ff64b..a4252d555d 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -17,6 +17,18 @@ v8.0.0 (unreleased) * **New features** + * qemu: Synchronous write mode for disk copy operations + + The ``blockdev-mirror`` block job supports a mode where writes from the VM + are synchronously propagated to the destination of the copy. This ensures + that the job will converge under heavy I/O. + + Implement the mode for the copy blockjob as + ``VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY_SYNCHRONOUS_WRITES`` flag exposed via + ``virsh blockcopy --synchronous-writes`` and for non-shared storage migration + as ``VIR_MIGRATE_NON_SHARED_SYNCHRONOUS_WRITES`` exposed via + ``virsh migrate --copy-storage-synchronous-writes``. + * **Improvements** * **Bug fixes**