[libvirt] [PATCH] news: Document kernel requirements for virtual networks

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Mon Mar 11 12:25:19 UTC 2019


After 7431b3eb9a05068e4b libvirt requires "filter", "nat" and
"mangle" tables to exist for both IPv4 and IPv6. This fact was
missed in the news.xml and since we don't have any better place
to advertise that let's update old news.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
---
 docs/news.xml | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
index 81466c3d55..8321ed8c43 100644
--- a/docs/news.xml
+++ b/docs/news.xml
@@ -146,7 +146,9 @@
           Historically firewall rules for virtual networks were added
           straight into the base chains. This works but has a number of
           bugs and design limitations. To address them, libvirt now puts
-          firewall rules into its own chains.
+          firewall rules into its own chains. Note that with this change the
+          <code>filter</code>, <code>nat</code> and <code>mangle</code> tables
+          are required for both <code>IPv4</code> and <code>IPv6</code>.
         </description>
       </change>
       <change>
-- 
2.19.2




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