[PATCH 1/1] NEWS.rst: update with pSeries initial memory fix

[Daniel Henrique Barboza]

On 1/6/21 11:47 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 11:42:09AM -0300, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
>> Commit v6.10.0-103-g198c1eb6b4 fixed this issue.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413 at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>
>> I forgot to update NEWS.rst back then :/
>>
>>   NEWS.rst | 7 +++++++
>>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
>> index da88b19d0a..2c5cee77db 100644
>> --- a/NEWS.rst
>> +++ b/NEWS.rst
>> @@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ v7.0.0 (unreleased)
>>   
>>   * **Bug fixes**
>>   
>> +  * Avoid taking extra host memory when launching pSeries guests
>> +
>> +    Under certain conditions, pSeries guests were being launched with more
>> +    RAM than it was specified in the domain XML by the user. New pSeries
>> +    domains created with libvirt 7.0.0 will always launch with the right
>> +    amount of initial memory.
> 
> Surely this is going to break live migration from old to new libvirt,
> as the QEMU started in the dest host will have a smaller -m arg.

This bug fix is being effective just when VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_ABI_UPDATE is set.
The migration code doesn't set this flag.


Thanks,


DHB



> 
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
>