Release of libvirt-7.2.0

The 7.2.0 release of both libvirt and libvirt-python is tagged and signed tarballs and source RPMs are available at https://libvirt.org/sources/ https://libvirt.org/sources/python/ Thanks everybody who helped with this release by sending patches, reviewing, testing, or providing any other feedback. Your work is greatly appreciated. * New features * qemu: Implement domain memory dirty rate calculation API New API ``virDomainStartDirtyRateCalc()`` and virsh command ``domdirtyrate-calc`` are added to start calculating a live domain's memory dirty rate. * qemu: Support reporting memory dirty rate stats The memory dirty rate stats can be obtained through ``virsh domstats --dirtyrate`` via the virConnectGetAllDomainStats API. * qemu: Full disk backups via ``virDomainBackupBegin`` The qemu hypervisor driver now allows taking full disk backups via the ``virDomainBackupBegin`` API and the corresponding virsh wrapper. In future releases the feature will be extended to also support incremental backups (where only the difference since the last backup is copied) when qemu adds the required functionality. * Add support for audio backend specific settings With this release a new ``<audio/>`` element is introduced that allows users to configure audio output for their guests. * Improvements * qemu: Compatibility with QEMU 6.0 for certain hot-(un)-plug operations Libvirt 7.2.0 is required for compatibility with the upcoming QEMU 6.0 release for hotplug and hotunplug of certain devices and helpers, such as iothreads, chardevs, RNG devices, disks with secret, ... * qemu: Various improvements to embedded mode Embedded mode for the QEMU driver, as well as the ``virt-qemu-run`` tool saw improvements in handling of domain life cycle, temporary directories creation (important when using disk secrets) and other minor fixes. * Documentation of split daemon related config files Split daemons read configuration files upon their start. These were never documented though. * Bug fixes * Check host CPU for forbidden features CPU feature policy did not work as expected with ``host-passthrough`` and features supported by physical host. CPU features were not filtered out when ``@check`` was set to ``full``. * Fix virNetworkUpdate() to work with split daemons Due to a bug in our code, virNetworkUpdate() did not work with split daemon unless management application connected to virtnetworkd directly. * qemu: increase locked memory limit when a vDPA device is present Just like VFIO devices, vDPA devices may need to have all guest memory pages locked/pinned in order to operate properly. These devices are now included when calculating the limit for memory lock. * Don't log error if SRIOV PF has no associated netdev Some SRIOV PFs don't have a netdev associated with them in which case libvirtd reported an error and refused to start. This is now fixed. * qemu: Only raise memlock limit if necessary Attempting to set the memlock limit might fail if we're running in a containerized environment where ``CAP_SYS_RESOURCE`` is not available, and if the limit is already high enough there's no point in trying to raise it anyway. * Restore security context of swtpm.log If a guest with emulated TPM was started and the daemon was restarted afterwards, the security context of the per-domain ``swtpm.log`` file was not restored on domain shutdown leaving it unable to be started again. * virtlogd|virtlockd: Fixed crash when upgrading the daemons in-place A bug preventing the in-place upgrade of ``virtlogd`` and ``virtlockd`` daemons was fixed, so they can again be upgraded without dropping the log file descriptors or locks on files. Enjoy. Jirka