Add a 'New features' entry for mapped-ram itself, and another for the parallel save/restore feature built on top. Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig(a)suse.com&gt; --- NEWS.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 484333e55a..76f7ea65b1 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -52,6 +52,21 @@ v11.2.0 (unreleased) /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf configuration file. The libvirt-guests script must be disabled before doing this. + * qemu: Add 'sparse' as a new save image format + + QEMU's ``file`` migration has been supplemented with the new stream format + ``mapped-ram``, where RAM pages are mapped directly to offsets in the + migration file. ``mapped-ram`` is now supported by augmenting the existing + save image formats with the ``sparse`` format. + + * qemu: Add support for parallel save/restore + + The ``sparse`` image format can support reading and writing by multiple + channels. ``virDomainSaveParams`` and ``virDomainRestoreParams`` now + support specifying the number of IO channels used for parallel save and + restore. Using multiple channels can reduce the time required to save + and restore domains. + * **Improvements** * **Bug fixes** -- 2.43.0