From: Peter Krempa Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 13:02:51 +0000 (+0200) Subject: NEWS: Mention qcow2 cluster size being preserved across snapshots and iSCSI hostdev... X-Git-Tag: v6.8.0-rc2^0 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=87b32725ac4e077ff1122a025f500a6b96cda374;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git NEWS: Mention qcow2 cluster size being preserved across snapshots and iSCSI hostdev fixes Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani --- diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 325b4fab9e..b3581ea69c 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -75,8 +75,20 @@ v6.8.0 (unreleased) the previous behavior with an improvement: it also reflects the auto-aligned value in the domain XML. + * qemu: Preserve qcow2 cluster size after external snapshots + + The new overlay image which is installed on top of the current chain when + taking an external snapshot now preserves the cluser size of the original + top image to preserve any performance tuning done on the original image. + * **Bug fixes** + * qemu: Various (i)SCSI backed hostdev fixes + + (i)SCSI backed hostdevs now work again with an arbitrarily long + user-specified device alias and also honor the 'readonly' property after a + recent rewrite. + * **Removed features** * node_device: Remove HAL node device backend