[PATCH v2 1/1] NEWS.rst: update with pSeries initial memory fix

Daniel Henrique Barboza danielhb413 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 11 17:29:35 UTC 2021


Ping for reviews, since this one would be nice to be pushed
before the release is out.


DHB

On 1/6/21 12:04 PM, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> Commit v6.10.0-103-g198c1eb6b4 fixed this issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413 at gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> Changes from v2:
> - clarified that the bug fix will not affect existing guests that will
> update from an older Libvirt version to 7.0.0.
> 
>   NEWS.rst | 8 ++++++++
>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
> index da88b19d0a..fffdccd39d 100644
> --- a/NEWS.rst
> +++ b/NEWS.rst
> @@ -23,6 +23,14 @@ 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. Existing guests that migrate from an older
> +    libvirt version to 7.0.0 will not be affected by this change.
> +
>   
>   v6.10.0 (2020-12-01)
>   ====================
> 




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