Libvirt release notes (virsh)

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• v5.9.0 2019-11-05

• v5.7.0 2019-09-03

virsh guestinfo

• v5.6.0 2019-08-05

qemu: Allow XML validation for snapshot creation

Add flag VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_VALIDATE to validate snapshot input XML. For virsh, users can use it as virsh snapshot-create --validate. (See also Virsh/virsh snapshot-create-as)

• v5.1.0 2019-03-04

External snapshot metadata redefinition is fixed

Attempting to use VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_CREATE_REDEFINE to reinstate the metadata describing an external snapshot :created earlier for an offline domain no longer fails.

• v5.0.0 2019-01-15

• v4.9.0 2018-11-04

util: Add cgroup v2 support

• v4.8.0 2018-10-01

• v4.4.0 2018-06-04

qemu: Add support for migration of VMs with non-shared storage over TLS

Introduce SCSI persistent reservations support

• v4.2.0 2018-04-01

qemu: use arp table of host to get the IP address of guests

• v4.1.0 2018-03-05

qemu: unlink memory backing file on domain shutdown

Depending on the filesystem where domain memory is stored, some files might have been left behind. This is not a :problem on hugetlbfs, but it is a problem on regular filesystems like ext4.

qemu: If multiple domains were being shut down in parallel, libvirtd might have deadlocked.

• v4.0.0 2018-01-19

• v3.1.0 2017-03-03

storage: Add Virtuozzo storage backend storage pool

• v2.5.0 2016-12-04

The new libssh transport allows to connect to a running libvirtd via SSH, using the libssh library; for example: qemu+libssh://server/system