From: Andrea Bolognani Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:46:11 +0000 (+0100) Subject: news: Document changes to firmware autoselection X-Git-Tag: v9.2.0-rc1~240 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c85d7e3647bb33baf624bf32ccd253215c1b33df;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git news: Document changes to firmware autoselection Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik --- diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index a55e7394a1..1a763f6223 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -19,6 +19,16 @@ v9.2.0 (unreleased) * **Improvements** + * qemu: Make firmware selection persistent + + Up until now, firmware autoselection has been performed at domain startup + time: as a result, changes to the JSON firmware descriptors present on the + system could have translated to a different firmware being chosen for + subsequent startups of the same domain, potentially rendering it unbootable + or lowering the security guarantees. Firmware selection now happens once, + when the domain is defined, and its results are stored in the domain XML + to be reused, unchanged, for all subsequent boots. + * **Bug fixes**