[PATCH 11/15] news: Introduce VIR_DOMAIN_CHECKPOINT_REDEFINE_VALIDATE flag

[Peter Krempa]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 15:08:41 +0800, Han Han wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Han Han <hhan at redhat.com>
> ---
>  NEWS.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
> index 24e4481874..fed80b6724 100644
> --- a/NEWS.rst
> +++ b/NEWS.rst
> @@ -360,6 +360,12 @@ v6.10.0 (2020-12-01)
>      mode of files and directories, respectively, when using accessmode=mapped.
>      It requires QEMU 2.10 or above.
>  
> +  * checkpoint: Introduce VIR_DOMAIN_CHECKPOINT_REDEFINE_VALIDATE flag
> +
> +    Introduce a flag which will allow users to perform hypervisor-specific
> +    validation when redefining the checkpoint metadata. It could be used by
> +    ``virsh checkpoint-create --redefine-validate``.

NACK, checkpoints as part of incremental backups are still not enabled
due to the missing 'blockdev-reopen' capability of qemu, so there's no
point in documenting this.