[libvirt] Availability of libvirt 3.7.0

I pushed the final version earlier today, it is tagged in git and I made available sigend tarball and rpms at the usual place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ I also rolled out the 3.7.0 version of libvirt-python bindings, those are available from: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/python/ This is a balanced release with new features available from virsh command line and API, as well a general improvements and a fair amount of bug fixes: * New features - qemu: Add managedsave-edit commands Using managedsave-dumpxml, managedsave-define and managedsave-edit commands, now we can dump and edit the XML configuration of domain which has managedsave image. - qemu: Add migrate-getmaxdowntime command Currently, the maximum tolerable downtime for a domain being migrated is write-only from libvirt, via migrate-setmaxdowntime. This implements a complementary migrate-getmaxdowntime command - bhyve: Support autoport for VNC ports It's no longer necessary to explicitly specify VNC port for the bhyve guests. With the autoport feature it will be allocated automatically. Please refer to the bhyve driver documentation for examples. - qemu: Added support for setting heads of virtio GPU - qemu: Added support to configure reconnect timeout for chardev devices When you have a TCP or UNIX chardev device and it's connected somewhere you can configure reconnect timeout if the connection is closed. * Improvements - qemu: Report a clear error when dropping a VM during startup "Failed to load config for domain 'DOMNAME'" is now reported if a VM config can't be parsed for some reason, and thus provides a clear indication for users (and devs). - apparmor: Update for QEMU 2.10 compatibility Starting with QEMU 2.10, disk images and NVRAM files get automatically locked to prevent them from being corrupted; however, file locking needs to be explicitly allowed through virt-aa-helper or AppArmor will reject the requests and the guest will not be able to run. - virsh: List Unix sockets in 'domdisplay' output VNC and SPICE graphics can use Unix sockets instead of TCP/IP sockets as connection endpoints, but such a configuration was not handled correctly by virsh domdisplay, causing the respective endpoints to be missing from the output. - qemu: Don't check whether offline migration is safe Since offline migration only copies the guest definition to the destination host, data corruption is not a concern and the operation can always be performed safely. - virt-host-validate: Fix IOMMU detection on ppc64 * Bug fixes - qemu: Better support for international domain names (with wide characters) There were some issues with multi-byte domains getting lost on daemon restart due to truncation, so the code now handles multi-byte names a bit better. - qemu: Support long domain names with namespaces Domains with extremely long names would fail to start due to temporary namespace paths being created with the whole name. The path is now generated with shortened name instead. - qemu: Tolerate missing emulator binary during libvirtd restart For some time libvirt required qemu capabilities being present when parsing VM configs during startup. As a side effect VM configs would fail to parse and thus vanish, if the emulator binary would be uninstalled or broken. Libvirt now tolerates when capabilities are missing during startup. - qemu: Prevent pSeries guests from disappearing in some situations pSeries guest would disappear if any of the host devices they were configured to use was not available during libvirtd startup, which could easily happen for SR-IOV Virtual Functions. This scenario is now handled correctly. - qemu: Honor <on_reboot/> setting The setting was accepted by the parser, but not actually implemented. - Fix --verbose option for all daemons Since v3.0.0, the option had been ignored by all libvirt deamons (libvirtd, virtlogd and virtlockd); it's now working as intended once again. Thanks everybody for your help with this release, be it with code, patches, review, documentation, but reports, etc ... Enjoy this release ! 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/