v0.44.0

Released on: Mon Aug 9 14:20:14 2021 +0000

• [PR #6058][acardace] Fix virt-launcher exit pod race condition
• [PR #6035][davidvossel] Addition of perfscale-audit tool for auditing performance of control plane during stress tests
• [PR #6145][acardace] virt-launcher: disable unencrypted TCP socket for libvirtd.
• [PR #6163][davidvossel] Handle qemu processes in defunc (zombie) state
• [PR #6105][ashleyschuett] Add VirtualMachineInstancesPerNode to KubeVirt CR under Spec.Configuration
• [PR #6104][zcahana] Report FailedUnschedulable VM status when scheduling errors occur
• [PR #5905][davidvossel] VM CrashLoop detection and Exponential Backoff
• [PR #6070][acardace] Initiate Live-Migration using a unix socket (exposed by virt-handler) instead of an additional TCP<->Unix migration proxy started by virt-launcher
• [PR #5728][vasiliy-ul] Live migration of VMs with hotplug volumes is now enabled
• [PR #6109][rmohr] Fix virt-controller SCC: Reflect the need for NET_BIND_SERVICE in the virt-controller SCC.
• [PR #5942][ShellyKa13] Integrate guest agent to online VM snapshot
• [PR #6034][ashleyschuett] Go version updated to version 1.16.6
• [PR #6040][yuhaohaoyu] Improved debuggability by keeping the environment of a failed VMI alive.
• [PR #6068][dhiller] Add check that not all tests have been skipped
• [PR #6041][xpivarc] [Experimental] Virt-launcher can run as non-root user
• [PR #6062][iholder-redhat] replace dead “stress” binary with new, maintained, “stress-ng” binary
• [PR #6029][mhenriks] CDI to 1.36.0 with DataSource support
• [PR #4089][victortoso] Add support to USB Redirection with usbredir
• [PR #5946][vatsalparekh] Add guest-agent based ping probe
• [PR #6005][acardace] make containerDisk validation memory usage limit configurable
• [PR #5791][zcahana] Added a READY column to the tabular output of “kubectl get vm/vmi”
• [PR #6006][awels] DataVolumes created by DataVolumeTemplates will follow the associated VMs priority class.
• [PR #5982][davidvossel] Reduce vmi Update collisions (http code 409) during startup
• [PR #5891][akalenyu] BugFix: Pending VMIs when creating concurrent bulk of VMs backed by WFFC DVs
• [PR #5925][rhrazdil] Fix issue with Windows VMs not being assigned IP address configured in network-attachment-definition IPAM.
• [PR #6007][rmohr] Fix: The bandwidth limitation on migrations is no longer ignored. Caution: The default bandwidth limitation of 64Mi is changed to “unlimited” to not break existing installations.
• [PR #4944][kwiesmueller] Add /portforward subresource to VirtualMachine and VirtualMachineInstance that can tunnel TCP traffic through the API Server using a websocket stream.
• [PR #5402][alicefr] Integration of libguestfs-tools and added new command guestfs to virtctl
• [PR #5953][ashleyschuett] Allow Failed VMs to be stopped when using --force --gracePeriod 0
• [PR #5876][mlsorensen] KubeVirt CR supports specifying a runtime class for virt-launcher pods via ‘launcherRuntimeClass’.