[ol8_kvm_appstream] libvirt-daemon-9.0.0-16.module+el8.10.0+90882+cbe6a391.aarch64

Server side daemon required to manage the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux. Requires a hypervisor specific sub-RPM
for specific drivers.

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• Thu Feb 05 2026 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 9.0.0-16.el8

  - cpu_map: Add cpu model EPYC Genoa (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 38458531]
  - cpu_map: Ignore all vmx-* features in sync_qemu_features_i386.py (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 38458531]
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "vnmi" (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 38458531]
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "stibp-always-on" (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 38458531]
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "null-sel-clr-base" (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 38458531]
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "no-nested-data-bp" (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 38458531]
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "lfence-always-serializing" (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 38458531]
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "auto-ibrs" (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 38458531]
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "amd-psfd" (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 38458531]
  - sync_qemu_features_i386: Ignore xen-vapic (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 38458531]

• Wed Dec 03 2025 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 9.0.0-15.el8

  - qemu: domain: Fix logic when tainting domain (Peter Krempa) [Orabug: 38669211]
  - resctrl: Account for memory bandwidth of 0 being valid (Martin Kletzander) [Orabug: 38264014]

• Mon Nov 03 2025 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 9.0.0-14.el8

  - MASH up various tests that lead to imperfections (Wim ten Have) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - conf: Fix migration in some firmware autoselection scenarios (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Move validation check out of postparse (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - conf: Move validation check out of postparse (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - conf: Don't explicitly set the secure-boot feature (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Automatically add firmware type/features information (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Don't drop firmware type/features information (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - conf: Don't format firmware type/features when migrating (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - conf: Remove some firmware validation checks (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Always go through firmware autoselection (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Discard requires-smm firmware when loader.secure=no (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Introduce qemuFirmwareMatchesPaths() (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - tests: Fix firmware descriptor masking test (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - tests: Add more tests for manual Secure Boot configuration (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - tests: Add firmware-auto-efi-loader-path (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - tests: Fix firmware-auto-efi-loader-path-nonstandard (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - tests: Rename a few firmware tests (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - news: Document support for QCOW2 format firmware (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - news: Document changes to firmware autoselection (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - docs: Document firmware format attribute (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - tests: Add more firmware tests (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Add support for QCOW2 format firmware (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - conf: Accept QCOW2 firmware format (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Propagate firmware format (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Filter firmwares based on format (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - drivers: Reject unsupported firmware formats (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - conf: Parse firmware format (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - conf: Change handling for empty NVRAM path (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Introduce qemuFirmwareEnsureNVRAM() (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Move qemuDomainNVRAMPathFormat() to qemu_firmware (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Move firmware selection from startup to postparse (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - conf: Export virDomainDefOSValidate() (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - tests: Add descriptors for QCOW2 format firmware builds (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Don't pick firmware with unsupported format (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Don't pick firmware that requires SMM when smm=off (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Clear os.firmwareFeatures after autoselection (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Only fill nvramTemplate for local sources (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Add convenience local variables (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - conf: Introduce virDomainLoaderDefNew() (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - conf: Introduce virDomainLoaderDefParseXMLLoader() (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Introduce qemuDomainDefBootPostParse() (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - qemu: Introduce qemuDomainDefMachinePostParse() (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - tests: Add more firmware tests (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - tests: Enable qemuxml2xml for more firmware tests (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - tests: Unify input files for firmware tests (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - tests: Move firmware tests to CAPS_LATEST (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - tests: Use x86_64 for all x86 firmware tests (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - tests: Rename firmware-manual-efi-rw* tests (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - tests: Set nvramDir in qemuxml2xmltest (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - docs: Fix documentation for loader.stateless attribute (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 38325535]
  - Revert "conf: Fix migration in some firmware autoselection scenarios" (Wim ten Have) [Orabug: 38325535]

• Tue Sep 09 2025 Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com> - 9.0.0-13.el8

  - qemu: fix switchover-ack regression for old qemu (Jon Kohler) [Orabug: 38408711]
  - qemu: add support for qemu switchover-ack (Jon Kohler) [Orabug: 38408711]
  - qemu: Add support for optional migration capabilities (Jiri Denemark) [Orabug: 38408711]
  - qemu: Document qemuMigrationParamsFlagMapItem fields (Jiri Denemark) [Orabug: 38408711]
  - qemu: Rename remoteCaps parameter in qemuMigrationParamsCheck (Jiri Denemark) [Orabug: 38408711]
  - qemu: Use C99 initializers for qemuMigrationParamsFlagMap (Jiri Denemark) [Orabug: 38408711]

• Fri Jun 13 2025 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 9.0.0-12.el8

  - Clean up resources on vhost-scsi hot plug/unplug (Joshua Brown) [Orabug: 38028900]

• Thu May 08 2025 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 9.0.0-11.el8

  - cpu_map: Remove rtm, hle and taa-no from the Sapphire Rapids CPU model (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 37845537]

• Mon Jan 13 2025 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 9.0.0-10.el8

  - cpu_map: Fix SierraForest CPU model (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Install SierraForest description file (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add SierraForest CPU model (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add missing vmx features from MSR 0x491 (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add missing vmx features from MSR 0x490 (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add missing vmx features from MSR 0x48F (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add missing vmx features from MSR 0x48E (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add missing vmx features from MSR 0x48D (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add missing vmx features from MSR 0x48C (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add missing vmx features from MSR 0x48B (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add missing vmx features from MSR 0x485 (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add missing vmx features from MSR 0x480 (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "pbrsb-no" (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "psdp-no" (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "fbsdp-no" (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "sbdr-ssdp-no" (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "mcdt-no" (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "cmpccxadd" (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "avx-vnni-int8" (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "avx-ne-convert" (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "avx-ifma" (Tim Wiederhake) [Orabug: 37296073]

• Wed Nov 06 2024 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 9.0.0-9.el8

  - qemu: conf: Set default vCPU hot plug/unplug timeout to 30s (Karl Heubaum) [Orabug: 37249230]

• Mon Oct 14 2024 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 9.0.0-8.el8

  - qemu: Add x-orcl-dirty-bitmap-devices measure mode (Joao Martins) [Orabug: 37097510]

• Tue Oct 01 2024 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 9.0.0-7.el8

  - qemu: conf: Add configuration to tune vcpu unplug timeout (Partha Satapathy) [Orabug: 37098750]
  - conf: Fix migration in some firmware autoselection scenarios (Andrea Bolognani) [Orabug: 37024703]
  - cpu_map: Add SapphireRapids CPU model (Lin Yang)
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "fsrc" (Tim Wiederhake)
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "fsrs" (Tim Wiederhake)
  - cpu_map: Add missing feature "fzrm" (Tim Wiederhake)