I have just tagged v12.2.0-rc1 in the repository and pushed signed
tarballs to https://download.libvirt.org/
Please give the release candidate some testing and in case you find a
serious issue which should have a fix in the upcoming release, feel
free to reply to this thread to make sure the issue is more visible.
If you have not done so yet, please update NEWS.rst to document any
significant change you made since the last release.
Jirka
The 12.1.0 release of both libvirt and libvirt-python is tagged and
signed tarballs are available at
https://download.libvirt.org/https://download.libvirt.org/python/
Thanks everybody who helped with this release by sending patches,
reviewing, testing, or providing feedback. Your work is greatly
appreciated.
* New features
* qemu: Advertise firmware features in domain capabilities XML
The contents of the ``<firmwareFeatures/>`` element can be used to determine
ahead of time whether a firmware matching certain characteristics, for
example Secure Boot support, is available for the selected architecture and
machine type.
* qemu: Add support for uefi-vars device and firmware builds using it
This is particularly noteworthy for people running aarch64 VMs with the
'virt' machine type, as it makes it finally possible to use Secure Boot
with that combination.
In most cases, no special steps are needed to take advantage of this:
assuming that you have installed a recent version of QEMU, as well as a
build of edk2 that includes the necessary binaries, you can just `enable
Secure Boot <kbase/secureboot.html>`__ as you normally would.
To explicitly request that the uefi-vars device is used even for scenarios
where that would normally not be the case, it's enough to add an empty
``<varstore/>`` element in the domain XML. More details are available in
the `guest firmware configuration <formatdomain.html#guest-firmware>`__
section of the documentation.
* hyperv: improve API coverage for the hyperv driver
The `virDomainInterfaceAddresses()` and `virDomainGetBlockInfo()` APIs are
now supported by the hyperv driver. In addition, the domain xml for hyperv
domains will indicate via firmware features whether secure boot is enabled.
It also honors these firmware features when creating new domains.
* bhyve: Add support for vCPU pinning configuration
Bhyve guests can now have vCPU pinning configured::
<cputune>
<vcpupin vcpu="0" cpuset="1,2,3"/>
</cputune>
Additionally, the ``domainGetVcpuPinInfo`` API is implemented for
querying vCPU pinning information.
* qemu: Support block operation latency histograms
Libvirt now allows configuring qemu's block latency histogram collection
as well as returns them via the bulk stats API.
* Improvements
* Introduce granule attribute for virtio-iommu
In case when guest page size doesn't match the host page size (typically
aarch64) the ``virtio-iommu`` needs to know the guest page size so it can
allocate memory aligned to guest page size.
* Parse hyperv features even for host-model
Two releases ago, in v11.9.0 new ``host-model`` mode for Hyper-V
enlightenments was introduced. Starting with this release, users can
additionally override the defaults that are picked when domain is started
and features are expanded.
* bhyve: Improve loader configuration for arm64 guests
If loader is not explicitly configured, use the loader
from the ``sysutils/u-boot-bhyve-arm64`` port/package for the
arm64 guests.
* Bug fixes
* Fix build with remote driver disabled
Some parts of code were wrongly annotated as depended on remote driver.
But they were used even from client side drivers. This is now fixed and
libvirt builds properly even with remote driver disabled.
* Various fixes to libvirt-guests.sh
Firstly, the exit code of various commands was ignored (which may lead the
script to wrongly determine persistent/transient domain state, for
instance). Secondly, due to logical error, the script might have
incorrectly asses state a domain is in.
* AppArmor: Ask for no deny rule for readonly disk elements
For read only disks, libvirt created an AppArmor profile which disallowed
any future write rules. But when doing a blockcommit, libvirt needs to
allow hypervisor to write to even readonly disks. The rule in the profile
was changed so that future write rules can be added, temporarily.
* esx: Allow connecting to IPv6 server
Due to a bug in our code, if an IPv6 address was provided in connection
URI, libvirt would fail to connect to VMWare server. This is now fixed.
* qemu: Use device alias if interface has no name
The ``virDomainInterfaceAddresses()`` API (or ``virsh domifaddr``) returns
an array interfaces among with their addresses. But some interface names
might be unknown, for instance if the API is told to parse host's ARP table
then PCI assigned NICs or slirp/passt lack interface name. If that's the
case, let the API return domain's ``<interface/>`` alias.
* bhyve: hyperv: Various memory leak fixes
* qemu: Fix failures when restoring save/managed-save images with upcoming qemu versions
Current git version of qemu would return an error when attempting to load
an existing (managed) save image as we relied on deprecated features that
were now removed.
Enjoy.
Jirka
