From 0b0907316dd34b3266bf5e8d766e659e15742da5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Krempa Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 09:38:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] news: Document recent storage improvements MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko --- docs/news.xml | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml index f69c9c4780..cdcf450b48 100644 --- a/docs/news.xml +++ b/docs/news.xml @@ -113,8 +113,31 @@ exposes the same capability to libvirt users. + + + qemu: Storage configuration improvements + + + Libvirt now accepts <backingStore type='volume'> + and allows specifying the offset and size of the image format + container inside the storage source via the <slices> + subelement. + +
+ + + qemu: Image format probing is allowed in certain cases + + + To resolve regressions when users didn't specify the backing image + format in the overlay, libvirt now probes the format in certain + secure scenarios which fixes a few common existing cases. Additionally + the knowledge base was extended to provide more information on how + to rectify the problem. + +
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