[libvirt] [PATCH] news: Update for 5.7.0 release
Andrea Bolognani
abologna at redhat.com
Tue Sep 3 12:51:44 UTC 2019
On Tue, 2019-09-03 at 13:36 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 02:26:23PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > On Tue, 2019-09-03 at 14:09 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> > > + The big monolithic libvirtd daemon can now be replaced by smaller
> > > + per-driver daemons. Distributions can chose if they want the former
> > > + or the latter. The libvirtd is still kept around for backwards
> > > + compatibility.
> >
> > We might want to point out that things like SELinux support and
> > identity passing are not implemented yet, so distributions will
> > probably want to hold off using the split daemons by default for a
> > little while longer... Dan?
>
> Yep, the traditional libvirtd is stil the default.
>
> We should say that the split daemons are "experimental" at this
> stage.
We could have a section called "Experimental features" and move this
entry there.
> > In order to allow libvirt to abort on out of memory, we need to stop
> > linking...
>
> I would not mention OOM abort here, since that's not in this version.
>
> I'd just say that we have simiplified the dependancies of these two
> parts to make them self-contained. For the NSS plugin this reduces
> amount of code & 3rd party libs loaded into every process For the
> login shell this makes the thing simpler to audit for security.
That's more accurate, I agree.
I have already pushed Michal's patch, but we can fix it with a
follow-up before release I think. Care to quickly cook up something?
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
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