From 04e10e8714cb97e7227b122799479cc7e69d416c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Bolognani Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 16:43:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] news: Update for 4.5.0 release Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani --- docs/news.xml | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index 468d34093a..7348838dda 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -61,6 +61,16 @@ Support specifying extended TSEG size for SMM in QEMU. + + + qemu: Add support for SEV guests + + + SEV (Secure Encrypted Virtualization) is a feature available on AMD + CPUs that encrypts the guest memory and makes it inaccessible even + to the host OS. + +
@@ -76,6 +86,24 @@ secret objects, but that support was never added to libvirt. + + + Make GnuTLS mandatory + + + Building without GnuTLS is no longer possible. + + + + + qemu: Remove allow_disk_format_probing configuration option + + + The option represented a security risk when used with malicious + disk images, so users were recommended against enabling it; with + this release, it's been removed altogether. + +
@@ -130,6 +158,39 @@ or virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom. + + + qemu: Add support for vsock hot (un)plug and cold (un)plug + + + + + qemu: Add support for NBD over TLS + + + NBD volumes can now be accessed securely. + + + + + qemu: Implement FD passing for Unix sockets + + + Instead of having QEMU open the socket and then connecting to it, + which is inherently racy, starting with QEMU 2.12 we can open the + socket ourselves and pass it to QEMU, avoiding race conditions. + + + + + virsh: Introduce --nowait option for domstat command + + + When this option is specified, virsh will try to fetch the guest + stats but abort instead of stalling if they can't be retrieved right + away. + +
@@ -143,6 +204,26 @@ us getting to the worker pool initialization. + + + qemu: Fix domain resume after failed migration + + + Recent versions of QEMU activate block devices before the guest CPU + has been started, which makes it impossible to roll back a failed + migration. Use the late-block-activate migration + capability if supported to avoid the issue. + + + + + vmx: Permit guests to have an odd number of vCPUs + + + An odd number of vCPUs greater than 1 was forbidden in the past, + but current versions of ESXi have lifted that restriction. + +
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