Mention the hyperv notifier and the new API to set block thresholds. --- docs/news.xml | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index 814bd93fd..2dbd2335d 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -70,6 +70,20 @@ introducing a new host device type in the XML. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + Add support for block device threshold event + </summary> + <description> + When using thin provisioning, management tools need to resize the + disk in certain cases. To avoid having them to poll disk usage + this version introduces an event which will be fired when a given + offset of the storage is written by the hypervisor. Together with the + API it allows registering thresholds for given storage backing + volumes and this event will then notify management if the threshold + is exceeded. Currently only the qemu driver supports this. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Improvements"> <change> @@ -94,6 +108,17 @@ applications running on the platform. </description> </change> + <change> + <summary> + Write hyperv crash information into vm log + </summary> + <description> + qemu's implementation of the hyperv panic notifier now reports + information about the crash from the guest os. Libvirt starting from + this version logs the information to the vm log file for possible + debugging. + </description> + </change> </section> <section title="Bug fixes"> <change> -- 2.12.1