[PATCH 2/2] NEWS: Update with description of changes to lifecycle action handling
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com>
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* **Improvements**
+ * qemu: Lifecycle action (``on_poweroff``/``on_reboot``) handling improvements
+
+ The handling of lifecycle actions was fixed and improved in multiple ways:
+
+ - ``restart-rename`` action was forbidden
+
+ The action was never properly implemented in the qemu driver and didn't
+ actually result in a restart of the VM but rather termination. The qemu
+ driver now rejects such configurations.
+
+ - ``preserve`` action was forbidden
+
+ Similarly to the previous case this never worked as the intended semantics
+ of the actions dictate. It's better to not allow it at all until there's a
+ proper implementation
+
+ - ``reboot`` action of ``on_poweroff`` now actually works
+
+ The guest OS is now rebooted instead of terminating the VM when the
+ ``reboot`` action is used and the guest OS powers down. Note that it's
+ incompatible with ``on_reboot`` set to ``destroy``.
+
+ - Changes in action action of ``on_reboot`` are now updated with qemu
+
+ Libvirtd can now properly update the ``on_reboot`` action in qemu which
+ allows proper handling when changing between ``reboot`` and ``destroy``
+ actions. In addition, switching from ``reboot`` to ``destroy`` was
+ forbidden for older qemus which don't support the update API as the guest
+ could still reboot and execute some instructions until it was terminated.
+
* **Bug fixes**
* qemu: Record proper ``backing`` format for overlays of qcow2+luks images
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