Before 9c17d665 (v1.3.2 - I know, right?) it was possible to
have the following interface configuration:

  <interface type='ethernet'/>
    <script path=''/>
  </interface>

This resulted in -netdev tap,script=,.. Fortunately, qemu helped
us to get away with this as it just ignored the empty script
path. However, after the commit mentioned above it's libvirtd
who is executing the script. Unfortunately without special
case-ing empty script path.
Signed-off-by: NMichal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>

s/tunnelled/tunneled/ in news for the libxl tunneled migration feature.

Signed-off-by: NJoao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>

 * Add bhyve e1000 support entry to release notes
 * Update the bhyve driver page with usage sample

Document the ovs_timeout introduced to libvirtd.conf in previous
patches.
Signed-off-by: NMichal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>

Document the extensions made to domain <memoryBacking/> element
made in previous commits.
Signed-off-by: NMichal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>

This part introduces new xml elements for file based
memorybacking support and their parsing.
(It allows vhost-user to be used without hugepages.)

New xml elements:
<memoryBacking>
  <source type="file|anonymous"/>
  <access mode="shared|private"/>
  <allocation mode="immediate|ondemand"/>
</memoryBacking>

Example:

  <network>
     ...
     <mtu size='9000'/>
     ...

If mtu is unset, it's assumed that we want the default for whatever is
the underlying transport (usually this is 1500).

This setting isn't yet wired in, so it will have no effect.

This partially resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1224348

Updating docs/news.xml in the same commit that performs the
documented change makes backports needlessly complicated,
both for mainteinance branches and downstream distributions,
because it introduces additional potential for merge
conflicts.

Document in the contributor guidelines that the release notes
should be updated in a separate commit instead, so that it's
easy to backport just the code change.

Add recently created modules to the download page list.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>

If the passwd attribute is set to empty string it disables VNC/SPICE
access to the guest.
Signed-off-by: NPavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NOlga Krishtal <okrishtal@virtuozzo.com>

So far we allow to set MTU for libvirt networks. However, not all
domain interfaces have to be plugged into a libvirt network and
even if they are, they might want to have a different MTU (e.g.
for testing purposes).
Signed-off-by: NMichal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NMichal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>

fabric_name is one of many fc_host attributes in Linux that is optional
and left to the low-level driver to decide if it is implemented.
The zfcp device driver does not provide a fabric name for an fcp host.

This patch removes the requirement for a fabric name by making it optional.
Signed-off-by: NBoris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346566

If libvirt_parthelper is erroneously told to append the partition
separator 'p' onto the generated output for a disk pool using device
mapper that has 'user_friendly_names' set to true, then the error
recovery path will fail to find volume resulting in the pool being
in an unusable state.

So, augment the documentation to provide the better hint that the
part_separator='yes' should be set when user_friendly_names are not
being used. Additionally, once we're in the error path where the
returned name doesn't match the expected partition name try to see
if the reason is because the 'p' was erroneosly added. If so alter
the about to be removed vol->target.path so that the DiskDeleteVol
code can find the partition that was created and remove it.

Signed-off-by: NMichal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>

This reverts commit ae16c95f.

Signed-off-by: NDaniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NJiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>

In the documentation we are mixing libvirt-guest and
libvirt_guest module name. The correct name is the latter.
Signed-off-by: NMichal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>

For HVM domains, pae is only set in libxl_domain_build_info when
explicitly specified in the hypervisor <features> config. This is
fine for i686 machines, but is incorrect behavior for x86_64 machines
where pae must always be enabled. See the following discussion for
additional details

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2017-January/msg00254.html

This element has been introduced in fe053dbe, but isn't
documented yet. After exactly 6 years I guess we can finally
document it.
Signed-off-by: NMichal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NJoao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>

Signed-off-by: NMarc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

In f55afd83 I've made libvirt to construct hugepage path on
per-domain basis. However, this change was not reflected in
the NEWS file.
Signed-off-by: NMichal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>

Add "New Features" entry to describe the overwrite flag for logical backend.

Add bug fixes description of overwrite changes for a file system storage pool

Add "Improvements" for commit id 'bb74a7ff' and '78be2e8b' which add
support for using the parent wwnn/wwpn or fabric_name rather than just
using the parent by scsi_hostX name.

Commit id 'bb74a7ff' forgot to adjust the storage docs to describe the
new fields.

Suggested-by: NJohn Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>

By default, pool-info will convert sizes to human friendly units.

This patch will introduce option [--bytes].
If specified, the raw sizes will be in the output.
Signed-off-by: NChen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: NJohn Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>

Now that we have built a fairly solid process for dealing with
release notes, we should start pushing for contributors to
provide the relevant information along with their code:
documenting the process is clearly a requirement for this to
happen.