From: Peter Krempa Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 13:33:31 +0000 (+0200) Subject: news: mention internal snapshot changes X-Git-Url: http://xenbits.xensource.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=72fb7cd75c83d9a7972b2ede706e004f64c09bc9;p=libvirt.git news: mention internal snapshot changes Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina --- diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 437e032b90..7f4f33c8f8 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -19,6 +19,22 @@ v10.9.0 (unreleased) * **Improvements** + * qemu: internal snapshot improvements + + The qemu internal snapshot handling code was updated to use modern commands + which avoid the problems the old ones had, preventing use of internal + snapshots on VMs with UEFI NVRAM. Internal snapshots of VMs using UEFI are + now possible provided that the NVRAM is in ``qcow2`` format. + + The new code also allows better control when deleting snapshots. To prevent + possible regressions no strict checking is done, but in case inconsistent + state is encountered a log message is added:: + + warning : qemuSnapshotActiveInternalDeleteGetDevices:3841 : inconsistent internal snapshot state (deletion): VM='snap' snapshot='1727959843' missing='vda ' unexpected='' extra='' + + Users are encouraged to report any occurence of the above message along + with steps they took to the upstream tracker. + * **Bug fixes**