Re: [PATCH] Add NEWS item for auto-shutdown feature

[Martin Kletzander via Devel]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 06:59:20PM +0100, Jiri Denemark via Devel wrote:

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 13:44:41 -0400, Laine Stump wrote:

On 3/20/25 10:57 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé via Devel wrote:
> From: Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com>
> ---
>   NEWS.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
> index 98ca838642..45d48c1485 100644
> --- a/NEWS.rst
> +++ b/NEWS.rst
> @@ -35,6 +35,23 @@ v11.2.0 (unreleased)
>       or even map them to specific virtqueues similarly to the ``virtio-blk``
>       device allowing for better performance in certain scenarios.
>
> +  * qemu: integrate support for VM shutdown on host shutdown
> +
> +    It is now possible to instruct the QEMU driver to automatically perform
> +    managed save, graceful shutdown, or hard poweroff on running VMs, when a
> +    host shutdown is requested. This feature is intended to eventually 
replace
> +    usage of the libvirt-guests script. The new approach improves on the
> +    libvirt-guests script, by proactively monitor logind for a signal that a

s/monitor/monitoring/ :-)


> +    host shutdown has been requested. It will initiate the chosen action on
> +    running guests immediately, allowing shutdown inhibitors to be released
> +    sooner. The new solution is also able to iteratively try multiple actions
> +    until one of them succeeeds in shutting down the VM.
> +
> +    Since it must be mutually exclusive with the libvirt-guests script, this
> +    feature currently requires an manual opt-in through editting of the

And s/ an / a / :-)

And s/editting/editing/ O:-)

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