[libvirt] [PATCH] news: Document qemu image locking

--- docs/news.xml | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index 81b7b68f95..76dfc92a20 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -135,6 +135,19 @@ can prepare the files if they need to do so. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + Shareable disks work properly with recent qemu + </summary> + <description> + Recent qemu versions added image locking to avoid potential corruption + of disk images. This broke shareable disks with libvirt since the + feature was turned on by default in qemu. Libvirt now enables sharing + of those disks in qemu so that the image locking is not applied in + that case. Additionally libvirt now checks that shareable disks have + supported format (raw) to avoid metadata corruption. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Bug fixes"> <change> -- 2.14.3