[libvirt] Release of libvirt-3.4.0

It's out ! The release is tagged in git, the tree is open ! I pushed the signed tartball and rpms to the usual place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ I also rolled out the libvirt-python-3.4.0 release that you can find at ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/python/ This is a feature and improvements driven release, as you can see below there is a number of point with direct user visible improvements: * New features - Improved streams to efficiently transfer sparseness New extension to virStream was implemented so that virStorageVolDownload and virStorageVolUpload can preserve file sparseness. - I/O APIC type can be specified for QEMU/KVM domains The ioapic tag was added to domain features, so the type of the I/O APIC can now be specified (e.g. putting it in userspace for KVM domains). - The reason for VM shutdown is reported, if known QEMU 2.10 will be able to report the reason for shutting down (whether that was caused by the guest or not), and libvirt is prepared for that and reports that information in its shutdown event as well, if it is known. * Improvements - Repository now has new README.md file The new file uses markdown syntax, so it looks better on github and possibly other web pages, but it has also more useful information. The old README is now symlink to the new file. - qemu: Use GICv2 by default for aarch64/virt TCG guests The emulated GICv3 has some limitations that make it unusable as a default; use GICv2 until they're sorted out. This change makes it once again possible to run aarch64/virt guests on a x86_64 host without having to tweak their configuration. - Additional capabilities for the node_device module Introduce two new capabilities to the node_device module. The first is for CCW devices, most common on the S390 architecture. The second is for fibre channel-backed SCSI devices and exposes the fc_remote_port sub-capability to SCSI target devices. - Node devices now report Mediated device capabilities Endpoint devices support new mdev capability and their parents now report the supported types in new mdev_types capability. - Capabilities now report information about host caches If supported in the kernel, host capabilities will now list L3 caches. The code for other levels was added as well, but only L3 caches are reported currently. - POWER9 CPU model was added It is now properly reported in host capabilities. - libxl: NUMA sibling distances are now reported in host capabilities - VMDK version 3 files are now properly detected - Interrupt remapping and Extended interrupt mode for IOMMU devices These two new features can now be controlled with new <driver intremap='on/off' eim='on/off'/> tag for iommu devices. - Graphics in libxl domains now have default addresses Even though there were default addresses before this change, they were not saved in the XML. It is now possible to see and control the listen addresses properly. - Default USB controllers are now added for devices in libxl domains Even though they were added automatically when USB device was attached, they could've been missing in some other cases. The logic is now fixed so there are always USB controllers, even if there was none of them in the specified XML. - Limits for RPC messages were increased Hitting the RPC limits we have is easier every day, so they were increased once again and some guessing logic was improved as well. It is now possible to get more stats than ever using the virConnectGetAllDomainStats() call and push through even bigger requests and replies for all APIs. * Bug fixes - qemu: Create memory_backing_dir on startup Libvirt's policy is that directories are created on startup if they don't exist. We've missed this one. - PCIe 4.0 cards now report proper link speeds It could happen that the link speed for PCIe devices was not properly reported or the nodedev-dumpxml just failed. That was due to mistake in the field width, but should now work properly. - qemu: Do not report errors on shutdown For some users, in some rare cases, it could happen that there was an error message "internal error: End of file from qemu monitor" in the logs even though no problem happened. The detection of these false positives was improved and such errors should not show any more. - User-specified UNIX socket paths for virtio channels should not be reset It could happen, in some cases, that libvirt would mistake a user-specified path for its own generated one and thus remove it from the XML. The detection of such addresses was improved now. - Fix address reservation during RNG hot-plug When error occurred in a specific point in time during the hot-plug of an RNG device, it could happen that an address was released even though another device was already using it, making it possible to hot-plug another device with that address, effectively having duplicated addresses in the XML. Thanks everybody for your help with the release, be it code, reviews, bug reports, doc, etc! Enjoy ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Developers Tools http://developer.redhat.com/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/