Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com&gt; --- NEWS.rst | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 9e538a8f57..af3c4906df 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -24,10 +24,45 @@ v10.0.0 (unreleased) This should enable faster migration of memory pages that the destination tries to read before they are migrated from the source. + * qemu: Add support for mapping iothreads to virtqueues of ``virtio-blk`` devices + + QEMU added the possibility to map multiple ``iothreads`` to a single + ``virtio-blk`` device and map them even to specific virtqueues. Libvirt + adds a ``<iothreads>`` subelement of the ``<disk> <driver>`` element that + users can use to configure the mapping. + + * qemu: Allow automatic resize of block-device-backed disk to full size of the device + + The new flag ``VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_RESIZE_CAPACITY`` for + ``virDomainBlockResize`` allows resizing a block-device backed ``raw`` disk + of a VM without the need to specify the full size of the block device. + * **Improvements** + * qemu: Improve migration XML use when persisting VM on destination + + When migrating a VM with a custom migration XML, use it as a base for + persisting it on the destination as users could have changed non-ABI + breaking facts which would prevent subsequent start if the old XML were used. + + * qemu: Simplify non-shared storage migration to ``raw`` block devices + + The phase of copying storage during migration without shared storage + requires that both the source and destination image are identical in size. + This may not be possible if the destination is backed by a block device + and the source image size is not a multiple of the block device block size. + + Libvirt aleviates this by automatically adding a ``<slice>`` to match the + size of the source image rather than failing the migration. + * **Bug fixes** + * qemu: Various migration bug fixes and debuggability improvement + + This release fixes multiple bugs in virsh and libvirt in handling of + migration arguments and XMLs and modifies error reporting for better + debugging. + v9.10.0 (2023-12-01) ==================== -- 2.43.0