Release of libvirt-6.9.0
The 6.9.0 release of both libvirt and libvirt-python is tagged and
signed tarballs and source RPMs are available at
https://libvirt.org/sources/
https://libvirt.org/sources/python/
Thanks everybody who helped with this release by sending patches,
reviewing, testing, or providing any other feedback. Your work is
greatly appreciated.
* New features
* nodedev: Add support for channel subsystem (CSS) devices on S390
A CSS device is represented as a parent device of a CCW device.
This support allows to create vfio-ccw mediated devices with
``virNodeDeviceCreateXML()``.
* qemu: Implement memory failure event
New event is implemented that is emitted whenever a guest encounters a
memory failure.
* qemu: Implement support for ``<transient/>`` disks
VMs based on the QEMU hypervisor now can use ``<transient/>`` option for
local file-backed disks to configure a disk which discards changes made to
it while the VM was active.
* hyperv: implement new APIs
The ``virConnectGetCapabilities()``, ``virConnectGetMaxVcpus()``,
``virConnectGetVersion()``, ``virDomainGetAutostart()``,
``virDomainSetAutostart()``, ``virNodeGetFreeMemory()``,
``virDomainReboot()``, ``virDomainReset()``, ``virDomainShutdown()``, and
``virDomainShutdownFlags()`` APIs have been implemented in the Hyper-V
driver.
* bhyve: implement virtio-9p filesystem support
Implement virito-9p shared filesystem using the ``<filesystem/>`` element.
* qemu: Add support for vDPA network devices.
VMs using the QEMU hypervisor can now specify vDPA network devices
using ``<interface type='vdpa'>``. The node device APIs also now
list and provide XML descriptions for vDPA devices.
* Improvements
* Bug fixes
* hyperv: ensure WQL queries work in all locales
Relying on the "Description" field caused queries to fail on
non-"en-US"
systems. The queries have been updated to avoid using localized strings.
* rpc: Fix ``virt-ssh-helper`` detection
libvirt 6.8.0 failed to correctly detect the availability of the new
``virt-ssh-helper`` command on the remote host, and thus always used the
fallback instead; this has now been fixed.
Enjoy.
Jirka