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Release of libvirt-11.0.0
by Jiri Denemark 15 Jan '25

15 Jan '25

The 11.0.0 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 * network/qemu/lxc: support vlans on standard Linux host bridges The network, qemu, and lxc drivers now support (using the ``<vlan>`` subelement) vlan tagging and trunking on network interfaces connected to a standard Linux host bridge. * qemu: Add support for direct and extended tlbflush features Domains can now utilise more tlbflush hyperv features. * Improvements * ch: Enable user aliases User can now specify custom aliases for devices in domain XML * qemu: Grab a QUERY job when formatting domain XML Under some specific conditions it might have happened that domain XML did not contain runtime information or returned an XML that's in process of changing (e.g. by a thread that's hotplugging a device). Formatting domain XML now serializes properly with other threads. * virtiofs: Allow read only mode The ``<filesystem/>`` with `virtiofsd` backend can now use ``<readonly/>`` tag to export underlying filesystem in read only mode. * qemu: allow migration of vGPU from mdev device <-> SRIOV VF device Some GPU vendors are switching from using vGPUs creating using mdev and identified with a uuid, to vGPUs created as SRIOV VFs and identified by their PCI address, and want to support live migration from a host using one type of vGPU to the other type. This is now possible. * Bug fixes * qemu: tpm: do not update profile name for transient domains Fix a possible crash when starting a transient domain which was introduced in the previous release. * qemu: Fix snapshot to not delete disk image with internal snapshot When a VM has internal snapshot that is parent to external snapshot and user reverts to the internal snapshot and deletes the external snapshot libvirt would delete the disk image containing the internal snapshot. This would result in data loss. * qemu: Do not format invalid XML with hyperv features in passthrough mode When hyperv features were specified together with ``mode="passthrough"`` libvirt parsed and formatted such features in the domain XML even though they were not used at all, resulting in XML that is not valid based on our schema. This is now fixed by not parsing any specified features when the passthrough mode is used. * qemu: Fix a crash when starting a domain with ovs bridge and QOS * cpu: Add missing -v1 variants for CPU models Some CPU models (mostly old ones) were missed when versioned CPU model names were introduced in the previous release. * qemu: Fix false error when recovering failed post-copy migration In some cases libvirt would report a failure to recover post-copy migration even though the recovery started just fine and migration would eventually successfully finish. Enjoy. Jirka

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Entering freeze for libvirt-11.0.0
by Jiri Denemark 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

I have just tagged v11.0.0-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. Thanks, Jirka

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Release of libvirt-10.10.0
by Jiri Denemark 02 Dec '24

02 Dec '24

The 10.10.0 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: add multi boot device support on s390x For classical mainframe guests (i.e. LPAR or z/VM installations), you always have to explicitly specify the disk where you want to boot from (or "IPL" from, in s390x-speak -- IPL means "Initial Program Load"). In the past QEMU only used the first device in the boot order to IPL from. With the new multi boot device support on s390x that is available with QEMU version 9.2 and newer, this limitation is lifted. If the IPL fails for the first device with the lowest boot index, the device with the second lowest boot index will be tried and so on until IPL is successful or there are no remaining boot devices to try. Limitation: The s390x BIOS will try to IPL up to 8 total devices, any number of which may be disks or network devices. * qemu: Add support for versioned CPU models Updates to QEMU CPU models with -vN suffix can now be used in libvirt just like any other CPU model. * qemu: Support for the 'data-file' QCOW2 image feature The QEMU hypervisor driver now supports QCOW2 images with 'data-file' feature present (both when probing form the image itself and when specified explicitly via ``<dataStore>`` element). This can be useful when it's required to keep data "raw" on disk, but the use case requires features of the QCOW2 format such as incremental backups. * swtpm: Add support for profiles Upcoming swtpm release will have TPM profile support that allows to restrict a TPM's provided set of crypto algorithms and commands. Users can now select profile by using ``<profile/>`` in their TPM XML definition. * Improvements * qemu: Support UEFI NVRAM images on block storage Libvirt now allows users to use block storage as backend for UEFI NVRAM images and allows them to be in format different than the template. When qcow2 is used as the format, the images are now also auto-populated from the template. * qemu: Automatically add IOMMU when needed When domain of 'qemu' or 'kvm' type has more than 255 vCPUs IOMMU with EIM mode is required. Starting with this release libvirt automatically adds one (or turns on the EIM mode if there's IOMMU without it). * ch: allow hostdevs in domain definition The Cloud Hypervisor driver (ch) now supports ``<hostdev/>``-s. * ch: Enable callbacks for ch domain events The Cloud Hypervisor driver (ch) now supports emitting events on domain define, undefine, start, boot, stop and destroy. * Bug fixes * qemu: Fix reversion and inactive deletion of internal snapshots with UEFI NVRAM In `v10.9.0 (2024-11-01)`_ creation of internal snapshots of VMs with UEFI firmware was allowed, but certain operations such as reversion or inactive deletion didn't work properly as they didn't consider the NVRAM qcow2 file. * virnetdevopenvswitch: Warn on unsupported QoS settings For OpenVSwitch vNICs libivrt does not set QoS directly using 'tc' but offloads setting to OVS. But OVS is not as feature full as libvirt in this regard and setting different 'peak' than 'average' results in vNIC always sticking with 'peak'. Produce a warning if that's the case. Enjoy. Jirka

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Entering freeze for libvirt-10.10.0
by Jiri Denemark 28 Nov '24

28 Nov '24

I have just tagged v10.10.0-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. Thanks, Jirka

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Release of libvirt-10.9.0
by Jiri Denemark 01 Nov '24

01 Nov '24

The 10.9.0 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: zero block detection for non-shared-storage migration Users can now request that all-zero blocks are not transferred when migrating non-shared disk data without actually enabling zero detection on the disk itself. This allows sparsifying images during migration where the source has no access to the allocation state of blocks at the cost of CPU overhead. This feature is available via the ``--migrate-disks-detect-zeroes`` option for ``virsh migrate`` or ``VIR_MIGRATE_PARAM_MIGRATE_DISKS_DETECT_ZEROES`` migration parameter. See the documentation for caveats. * Improvements * qemu: internal snapshot improvements The qemu internal snapshot handling code was updated to use modern commands which avoid the problems the old ones had, preventing use of internal snapshots on VMs with UEFI NVRAM. Internal snapshots of VMs using UEFI are now possible provided that the NVRAM is in ``qcow2`` format. The new code also allows better control when deleting snapshots. To prevent possible regressions no strict checking is done, but in case inconsistent state is encountered a log message is added:: warning : qemuSnapshotActiveInternalDeleteGetDevices:3841 : inconsistent internal snapshot state (deletion): VM='snap' snapshot='1727959843' missing='vda ' unexpected='' extra='' Users are encouraged to report any occurence of the above message along with steps they took to the upstream tracker. * qemu: improve documentation of image format settings The documentation of the various ``*_image_format`` settings in ``qemu.conf`` imply they can only be used to control compression of the image. The documentation has been improved to clarify the settings describe the representation of guest memory blocks on disk, which includes compression among other possible layouts. * Report CPU model blockers in domain capabilities When a CPU model is reported as usable='no' an additional ``<blockers model='...'>`` element is added for that CPU model listing features required by the CPU model, but not supported on the host. Enjoy. Jirka

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Entering freeze for libvirt-10.9.0
by Jiri Denemark 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

I have just tagged v10.9.0-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. Thanks, Jirka

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Release of libvirt-10.8.0
by Jiri Denemark 01 Oct '24

01 Oct '24

The 10.8.0 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. * Improvements * network: make networks with ``<forward mode='open'/>`` more useful It is now permissable to have a ``<forward mode='open'>`` network that has no IP address assigned to the host's port of the bridge. This is the only way to create a libvirt network where guests are unreachable from the host (and vice versa) and also 0 firewall rules are added on the host. It is now also possible for a ``<forward mode='open'/>`` network to use the ``zone`` attribute of ``<bridge>`` to set the firewalld zone of the bridge interface (normally it would not be set, as is done with other forward modes). * storage: Lessen dependancy on the ``showmount`` program Libvirt now automatically detects presence of ``showmount`` during runtime as we do with other helper programs and also the ``daemon-driver-storage-core`` RPM package now doesn't strongly depend on it if the users wish for a more minimal deployment. * Switch from YAJL to json-c for JSON parsing and formatting The parser and formatter in the libvirt library, as well as the parsers in the nss plugin were rewritten to use json-c instead of YAJL, which is effectively dead upstream. * Relax restrictions for memorytune settings It should now be possible to use resctrl on AMD CPUs as well as Intel CPUs when the resctrl filesystem is mounted with ``mba_MBps`` option. * Bug fixes * virsh: Fix script-friedly output of ``virsh list --uuid`` The script-friendly output of just 1 UUID per line was mistakenly replaced by the full human-targetted table view full of redundant information and very hard to parse. Users who wish to see the UUIDs in the tabular output need to use ``virsh list --table --uuid`` as old behaviour was reverted. Note that this also broke the ``libvirt-guests`` script. The bug was introduced in `v10.7.0 (2024-09-02)`_. * network/qemu: fix some cases where ``device-update`` of a network interface was failing: * If the interface was connected to a libvirt network that was providing a pool of VFs to be used with macvtap passthrough mode, then *any* update to the interface would fail, even changing the link state. Updating (the updateable parts of) a macvtap passthrough interface will now succeed. * It previously was not possible to move an interface from a Linux host bridge to an OVS bridge. This (and the opposite direction) now works. * qemu: backup: Fix possible crashes when running monitoring commands during backup job The qemu monitor code was fixed to not crash in specific cases when monitoing APIs are called during a backup job. * Fix various memleaks and overflows Multiple memory leaks and overflows in corner cases were fixed based on upstream issues reported. * network: Better cleanup after disappeared networks If a network disappeared while virtnetworkd was not running not all clean up was done properly once the daemon was started, especially when only the network interface disappeared. This could have in some cases resulted in the network being shown as inactive, but not being able to start. * qemu: Remember memory backing directory for domains If ``memory_backing_dir`` is changed during the lifetime of a domain with file backed memory, files in the old directory would not be cleaned up once the domain is shut down. Now the directory that was used during startup is remembered for each running domain. Enjoy. Jirka

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Entering freeze for libvirt-10.8.0
by Jiri Denemark 27 Sep '24

27 Sep '24

I have just tagged v10.8.0-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. Thanks, Jirka

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Release of libvirt-10.7.0
by Jiri Denemark 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

The 10.7.0 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. * Security * CVE-2024-8235: Crash of ``virtinterfaced`` via ``virConnectListInterfaces()`` A refactor of the code fetching the list of interfaces for multiple APIs introduced corner case on platforms where allocating 0 bytes of memory results in a NULL pointer. This corner case would lead to a NULL-pointer dereference and subsequent crash of ``virtinterfaced`` if ``virConnectListInterfaces()`` is called requesting 0 networks to be filled. The bug was introduced in libvirt-10.4.0 * New features * qemu: Introduce the ability to disable the built-in PS/2 controller It is now possible to control the state of the ``ps2`` feature in the domain XML for descendants of the generic PC machine type (``i440fx``, ``q35``, ``xenfv`` and ``isapc``). * Improvements * ch: support restore with network devices Cloud-Hypervisor starting from V40.0 supports restoring file descriptor backed network devices. So, create new net fds and pass them via SCM_RIGHTS to CH during restore operation. * ch: support basic networking modes Cloud-Hypervisor driver now supports Ethernet, Network (NAT) and Bridge networking modes. Enjoy. Jirka

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Entering freeze for libvirt-10.7.0
by Jiri Denemark 29 Aug '24

29 Aug '24

I have just tagged v10.7.0-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. Thanks, Jirka

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