From f914b3f2d24d05615095e5ab5b0c91560c4dc903 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Krempa Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 09:22:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: news: Add entries for my recent changes --- docs/news.xml | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index 27562e12b8..f4423a646c 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -48,8 +48,42 @@
+ + + qemu: block copy job can be used with persistent domains + + + Until now it was not possible to use block copy with persistent VMs. + In use cases where it's not required to recover the job after VM + shutdown, it's possible to specify VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY_TRANSIENT_JOB + flag to start the copy job. + + + + + JSON pseudo-protocol backing store parser supports new format of qemu 2.9 + + + QEMU 2.9 modified a few structures corresponding to the JSON format + of specifying a backing store for a disk image. Libvirt now implements + the new format. + +
+ + + qemu: snapshot: retrieve image metadata from user provided files + + + Disk images of an external snapshot created with + VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_REUSE_EXT flag specified would not be + scanned for metadata after recent changes. + + The metadata is necessary to allow keeping relative paths between + images when doing a block-commit. + +