Release of libvirt-8.7.0

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Thu Sep 1 10:04:21 UTC 2022


The 8.7.0 release of both libvirt and libvirt-python is tagged and
signed tarballs and source RPMs are available at

    https://libvirt.org/sources/
    https://libvirt.org/sources/python/

Thanks everybody who helped with this release by sending patches,
reviewing, testing, or providing feedback. Your work is greatly
appreciated.

* Removed features

  * qemu: Remove support for QEMU < 4.2

    In accordance with our platform support policy, the oldest supported QEMU
    version is now bumped from 3.1 to 4.2.

* New features

  * qemu: Add support for specifying vCPU physical address size in bits

    Users can now specify the number of vCPU physical address bits with
    the `<maxphysaddr>` subelement of the `<cpu>` element.

* Improvements

  * esx: Domain XMLs can now be dumped for VMs with two new interface types

    One is when the interface is not connected anywhere `type='null'` and one
    when it is connected to VMWare Distributed Switch `type='vds'`.

* Bug fixes

  * qemu: increase memlock limit for a domain with multiple vfio/vdpa devices

    When multiple vfio or vdpa devices are assigned to a domain, the locked
    memory limit could be too low to map memory for all devices. The memlock
    limit has been increased to be proportional to the number of vdpa/vfio
    devices.

Enjoy.

Jirka


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