From: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2021 07:22:05 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: NEWS: disks: Mention <transient> improvements and <slice> XML fix
X-Git-Tag: v7.4.0~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=90fc237ecf4388f469b4de315e4665950316c890;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git

NEWS: disks: Mention <transient> improvements and <slice> XML fix

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 8358cbd369..ca3e3c3f0a 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -20,6 +20,17 @@ v7.4.0 (unreleased)
 
 * **New features**
 
+  * qemu: Add support for hotplugging ``<transient/>`` disks
+
+    The disk hotplug code in the qemu driver now can handle hotplug of disks
+    with automatically added overlay.
+
+  * qemu: Add support for sharing base image of ``<transient/>`` disks
+
+    Users can use ``<transient shareBacking='yes'/>`` to tell the qemu driver to
+    never open the base image in write mode thus multiple VMs can share the
+    same image. Note that the disk will be hotplugged during startup.
+
 * **Improvements**
 
   * Add win-dmp crashdump format
@@ -29,6 +40,10 @@ v7.4.0 (unreleased)
 
 * **Bug fixes**
 
+  * Allow 0 offset in XML schema for ``<slice type='storage' offset='0' size='321'/>``
+
+    Having a 0 offset so that the size of the image can be limited is a
+    valid configuration so it was allowed in the XML schema.
 
 v7.3.0 (2021-05-03)
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