[PATCH] NEWS: Mention qcow2 'data-file', block NVRAM, and internal snapshot reversion
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com>
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@@ -38,10 +38,31 @@ v10.10.0 (unreleased)
Updates to QEMU CPU models with -vN suffix can now be used in libvirt just
like any other CPU model.
+ * qemu: Support for the 'data-file' QCOW2 image feature
+
+ The QEMU hypervisor driver now supports QCOW2 images with 'data-file'
+ feature present (both when probing form the image itself and when specified
+ explicitly via ``<dataStore>`` element). This can be useful when it's
+ required to keep data "raw" on disk, but the use case requires features
+ of the QCOW2 format such as incremental backups.
+
* **Improvements**
+ * qemu: Support UEFI NVRAM images on block storage
+
+ Libvirt now allows users to use block storage as backend for UEFI NVRAM
+ images and allows them to be in format different than the template. When
+ qcow2 is used as the format, the images are now also auto-populated from the
+ template.
+
* **Bug fixes**
+ * qemu: Fix reversion and inactive deletion of internal snapshots with UEFI NVRAM
+
+ In `v10.9.0 (2024-11-01)`_ creation of internal snapshots of VMs with UEFI
+ firmware was allowed, but certain operations such as reversion or inactive
+ deletion didn't work properly as they didn't consider the NVRAM qcow2 file.
+
v10.9.0 (2024-11-01)
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