[PATCH] NEWS: note new passt feature & bugfix for 9.1.0 release
At Stefano's suggestion, this also adds a sentence pointing out that
SELinux must be disabled in order for passt support to work. I didn't
think to put this info in the NEWS file last month.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine(a)redhat.com>
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I've noticed that in some places, QEMU related points are marked with
"QEMU:" and in other places they are marked with "qemu:". In the
9.1.0
sections, the new features all use "qemu:" while the bugfixes all use
"QEMU:". I just went along with the flow in both cases, but we should
probably do a patch to standardize on one or the other (and then try
to stick to it). So which is more appropriate? using the
capitalization the way the QEMU project prefers it? Or the
capitalization the way the subdirectory in libvirt is named?
NEWS.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 1180d75310..df613abc69 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ v9.1.0 (unreleased)
A pvpanic device can be now defined as a PCI device (the original is an ISA
device) with ``<panic model='pvpanic'/>``.
+ * qemu: support automatic restart of inadvertantly terminated passt process
+
+ If the passt process that is serving as the backend of a -netdev
+ stream is terminated unexpectedly, libvirt now listens to QEMU's
+ notification of this, and starts up a new passt instance, thus
+ preserving network connectivity.
+
* **Improvements**
* RPM packaging changes
@@ -63,6 +70,15 @@ v9.1.0 (unreleased)
snapshot when it existed. In addition when external memory only snapshot
was created libvirt failed without producing any error.
+ * QEMU: properly report passt startup errors
+
+ Due to how the child passt process was started, the initial
+ support for passt (added in 9.0.0) would not see errors
+ encountered during startup, so libvirt would continue to setup and
+ start the guest; this led to a running guest with no network
+ connectivity. This issue has be corrected.
+
+ (NB: it is still necessary to disable SELinux to start passt.)
v9.0.0 (2023-01-16)
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2.39.2