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stevenhorsman
fc1de998bc WIP: workflows: Add concurrency limits
It is good practice to add concurrency limits to automatically
cancel jobs that have been superceded and potentially stop
race conditions if we try and get artifacts by workflows and job id
rather than run id.

See https://docs.zizmor.sh/audits/#concurrency-limits

Signed-off-by: stevenhorsman <steven@uk.ibm.com>
2026-03-09 16:30:13 +00:00
Alex Lyn
62b0f63e37 dragonball: Generate unique TAP names to avoid conflicts
The vhost-kern net unit test used a fixed TAP interface name
("test_vhosttap"). When tests run in parallel or a previous run
leaves the interface behind, TAP creation can fail with
EBUSY ("Resource busy"), making CI flaky.

Introduce a unique_tap_name() helper in the tests and use it to
generate a per-test TAP name (based on pid/thread/counter),
avoiding name collisions and stabilizing CI.

Signed-off-by: Alex Lyn <alex.lyn@antgroup.com>
2026-03-06 17:33:40 +08:00
Alex Lyn
1c8c0089da dragonball: fix flaky signal_handler test using libc::raise
The signal_handler test was intermittently failing because it used
kill(pid, sig), which sends signals asynchronously to the process.
This created a race condition where the child thread could exit and
be joined before the signal was delivered or processed.

This fix including:
1. Replaces `kill` with `libc::raise` to ensure signals are delivered
   synchronously to the calling thread.
2. Reorders triggers to verify standard signals before installing
   seccomp filters.
3. Guarantees that metrics are incremented before the child thread
   terminates and is joined by the main thread.

Signed-off-by: Alex Lyn <alex.lyn@antgroup.com>
2026-03-06 09:28:56 +08:00
Alex Lyn
d0718f6001 dragonball: Fix unnecessary parentheses around type
warning: unnecessary parentheses around type
   --> src/dragonball/dbs_legacy_devices/src/serial.rs:245:39
    |
245 |         let out: Arc<Mutex<Option<Box<(dyn std::io::Write + Send +
'static)>>>> =
    |                                       ^
^
    |
    = note: `#[warn(unused_parens)]` (part of `#[warn(unused)]`) on by
default
help: remove these parentheses

Signed-off-by: Alex Lyn <alex.lyn@antgroup.com>
2026-03-06 09:28:56 +08:00
Alex Lyn
b4161198ee dragonball: Remove unused imports variables in dbs_pci
Fix warnings of unused imports as below:
```
warning: unused imports: `DEVICE_ACKNOWLEDGE`, `DEVICE_DRIVER_OK`,
`DEVICE_DRIVER`, `DEVICE_FEATURES_OK`, and `DEVICE_INIT`
    --> src/dragonball/dbs_pci/src/virtio_pci.rs:1177:9
     |
1177 |         DEVICE_ACKNOWLEDGE, DEVICE_DRIVER, DEVICE_DRIVER_OK,
DEVICE_FEATURES_OK, DEVICE_INIT,
     |         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^^^^^
     |
     = note: `#[warn(unused_imports)]` (part of `#[warn(unused)]`) on by
default
```

Signed-off-by: Alex Lyn <alex.lyn@antgroup.com>
2026-03-06 09:28:56 +08:00
Alex Lyn
ca4e14086f runtime-rs: Fix warnings of unformatted codes
Fix warnings from unformattted codes.

Signed-off-by: Alex Lyn <alex.lyn@antgroup.com>
2026-03-06 09:28:56 +08:00
Alex Lyn
ce800b7c37 dragonball: Fix flaky test_vhost_user_net_virtio_device_activate hang
The vhost-user-net tests could hang in CI because
VhostUserNet::new_server() blocks indefinitely on listener.accept()
when the slave fails to connect in time
(e.g. due to scheduler delays or flaky socket paths). This also caused
panics when connect_slave() returned None and the test unwrapped it.

Fix the tests by:
- using a `/tmp`, absolute, unique unix socket path per test run
  retrying slave connect with a deadline
- running new_server() in a separate thread and waiting via
  recv_timeout() to ensure the test never blocks indefinitely

Signed-off-by: Alex Lyn <alex.lyn@antgroup.com>
2026-03-06 09:28:56 +08:00
Alex Lyn
a988b10440 dragonball: Fix flaky test_vhost_user_net_virtio_device_normal hang
It aims to fix flaky test hang by implementing thread timeouts.

The `test_vhost_user_net_virtio_device_normal` was hanging in CI
when master/slave threads drifted.

This commit stabilizes the test by:
- Using `tempfile` and unique paths to ensure socket isolation.
- Adding a 5s deadline for slave connections to handle CI jitter.
- Running `new_server` in a separate thread with a `recv_timeout`
  to prevent the CI pipeline from deadlocking.

Signed-off-by: Alex Lyn <alex.lyn@antgroup.com>
2026-03-06 09:28:56 +08:00
Alex Lyn
f36218d566 dragonball: Fix flaky test_inner_stream_timeout in inner backend
The `test_inner_stream_timeout` test case was prone to failure due to a
race condition between the main thread and the background handler. The
test relied on hardcoded `thread::sleep` durations, which could cause
the second read operation to time out (150ms window) before the main
thread performed its write (after a 300ms sleep) under high system load.

This commit stabilizes the test by:
1. Replacing fixed sleep durations with a `Condvar` and a `stage`
   variable to implement a deterministic state machine.
2. Synchronizing the threads so that the main thread only writes data
   after the background handler has confirmed it is ready or has
   completed its previous phase.
3. Ensuring the read timeout is explicitly managed between different
   validation stages to prevent accidental `TimedOut` errors.

This change eliminates the flakiness and ensures the test passes
consistently across different CIenvironments.

Fixes #12618

Signed-off-by: Alex Lyn <alex.lyn@antgroup.com>
2026-03-06 09:28:56 +08:00
Alex Lyn
c8a39ad28d dragonball: Fix flaky test_epoll_manager by improving synchronization
This commit aims to address issues of "Infinite loop in epoll_manager
tests" and improve stablity.

Root causes as below:
1. Using `handle_events(-1)` caused the worker thread to block forever
   if an event was missed or if the internal `kick()` signal was not
   accounted for correctly.
2. Relying on event counts was unreliable because internal signals could
   fluctuate the total count, causing the it to enter an infinite loop.
3. Using `EventSet::OUT` on an EventFd is often continuously ready,
   leading to non-deterministic trigger behavior.

Signed-off-by: Alex Lyn <alex.lyn@antgroup.com>
2026-03-06 09:28:56 +08:00
Fabiano Fidêncio
2fff33cfa4 Merge pull request #12628 from stevenhorsman/agent-ctl-bump-aws-lc-rs
agent-ctl: Update aws-lc-rs
2026-03-05 20:52:03 +01:00
Fabiano Fidêncio
079fac1309 Merge pull request #12591 from fidencio/topic/kernel-add-mmio-back-to-the-unified-kernels
kernel: include mmio fragment in unified build for firecracker
2026-03-05 13:45:41 +01:00
stevenhorsman
c57f2be18e agent-ctl: Update aws-lc-rs
aws-lc has mutliple high severity CVEs:
- GHSA-vw5v-4f2q-w9xf
- GHSA-65p9-r9h6-22vj
- GHSA-hfpc-8r3f-gw53

so try and bump to the latest `aws-lc-rs` crate to pull in the available fixed versions

Signed-off-by: stevenhorsman <steven@uk.ibm.com>
2026-03-05 10:02:22 +00:00
Fabiano Fidêncio
8f35c31b30 Merge pull request #12542 from fidencio/topic/genpolicy-distribute-different-settings-rather-than-patching-for-ci
genpolicy: settings.d drop-ins and scenario example drop-ins
2026-03-05 07:37:30 +01:00
Fabiano Fidêncio
83dd7dcc75 runtimes: reject virtio-blk-mmio when confidential_guest is true
Virtio-mmio transport is not hardened for confidential computing (unlike
virtio-pci). Reject config that would use virtio-blk-mmio for rootfs/block
when confidential_guest is set, so CoCo guests only use virtio-blk-pci.

Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
2026-03-04 21:41:27 +01:00
Fabiano Fidêncio
d40afe592c genpolicy: add settings drop-in directory and RFC 6902 JSON Patch support
Allow genpolicy -j to accept a directory instead of a single file.
When given a directory, genpolicy loads genpolicy-settings.json from it
and applies all genpolicy-settings.d/*.json files (sorted by name) as
RFC 6902 JSON Patches. This gives precise control over settings with
explicit operations (add, remove, replace, move, copy, test), including
array index manipulation and assertions.

Ship composable drop-in examples in drop-in-examples/:
- 10-* files set platform base settings (non-CoCo, AKS, CBL-Mariner)
- 20-* files overlay specific adjustments (OCI version, guest pull)
Users copy the combination they need into genpolicy-settings.d/.

Replace the old adapt_common_policy_settings_* jq-patching functions
in tests_common.sh with install_genpolicy_drop_ins(), which copies the
right combination of 10-* and 20-* drop-ins for the CI scenario.
Tests still generate 99-test-overrides.json on the fly for per-test
request/exec overrides.

Packaging installs 10-* and 20-* drop-ins from drop-in-examples/ into
the tarball; the default genpolicy-settings.d/ is left empty.

Made-with: Cursor
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
2026-03-04 20:13:21 +01:00
Dan Mihai
e40d962b13 genpolicy: improve allow_mount logging
Add simple -------- text lines separator to the beginnning of the
allow_mount log output, to help log readers easier separate the ~30
lines of text generated while verifying each mount.

Signed-off-by: Dan Mihai <dmihai@microsoft.com>
2026-03-04 16:28:29 +00:00
Steve Horsman
2687ad75c1 Merge pull request #12617 from BbolroC/skip-cgroup-device-check-for-remote
runtime: Skip to call sandboxDevices() for remote hypervisor
2026-03-04 14:00:23 +00:00
Hyounggyu Choi
347ce5e3bc runtime: Skip to call sandboxDevices() for remote hypervisor
The remote hypervisor delegates VM creation to a remote service.
The VM runs on cloud infrastructure, not the local host kernel.
So requiring a KVM/MSHV device is semantically wrong and would
cause a hard failure on any host where these devices are absent
(e.g., a VM that doesn't expose nested virtualization).

Skip sandboxDevices() entirely when the configured hypervisor type
is remoteHypervisor{}.

Signed-off-by: Hyounggyu Choi <Hyounggyu.Choi@ibm.com>
2026-03-03 13:44:12 +01:00
stevenhorsman
642aa12889 csi-kata-directvolume: Bump x/net to v0.51
Remediates CVE GO-2026-4559

Signed-off-by: stevenhorsman <steven@uk.ibm.com>
2026-03-02 16:40:58 +00:00
Steve Horsman
e50324ba5b Merge pull request #12609 from kata-containers/dependabot/go_modules/src/runtime/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk-1.40.0
build(deps): bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk from 1.35.0 to 1.40.0 in /src/runtime
2026-03-02 16:32:40 +00:00
stevenhorsman
993a4846c8 versions: Bump go to 1.25.7
Now that go 1.26 is out, 1.24 is not supported, so bump to
1.25 as per our policy.

Signed-off-by: stevenhorsman <steven@uk.ibm.com>
2026-03-02 16:33:47 +01:00
dependabot[bot]
d95d1796b2 build(deps): bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk in /src/runtime
Bumps [go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go) from 1.35.0 to 1.40.0.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)
- [Commits](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/compare/v1.35.0...v1.40.0)

---
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk
  dependency-version: 1.40.0
  dependency-type: direct:production
...

Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>
2026-03-02 12:59:21 +00:00
Steve Horsman
b147cb1319 Merge pull request #12587 from fidencio/topic/runtime-add-configurable-kubelet-root-dir
runtimes: add configurable kubelet root dir
2026-02-28 19:06:14 +00:00
Xuewei Niu
8a4ae090e6 Merge pull request #12513 from lifupan/event_publish
send the task create/start/delete event to containerd
2026-02-28 14:41:46 +08:00
Zvonko Kaiser
afe09803a1 gpu: Ignore OVMF and use the Kernel for proper PCI setup
Sometimes OVFM provides incorrect values to the kernel
we override it by telling the kernel to handle the PCI space setup
like allocating the proper window sizes and assigning the proper busses
to each device.

Signed-off-by: Zvonko Kaiser <zkaiser@nvidia.com>
2026-02-27 22:54:31 +01:00
Manuel Huber
88f746dea8 runtime: nvidia: Use OVMF for NV GPU handler
Shift to using OVMF instead of using SeaBios.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Huber <manuelh@nvidia.com>

Update src/runtime/Makefile

Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Zvonko Kaiser <zkaiser@nvidia.com>
2026-02-27 22:54:31 +01:00
Zvonko Kaiser
eec397ac08 qemu: Remove PCIe root port BAR reserve sizing
Stop computing and setting mem-reserve and pref64-reserve on PCIe root
ports and switch ports. Remove getBARsMaxAddressableMemory() which
scanned host GPU BARs to pre-calculate these values.

The previous approach only considered GPU devices (IsGPU(), class
0x0302) when scanning for BAR sizes, so devices like NVSwitches (class
0x0680) with their 32MB non-prefetchable BAR0 were not accounted for
and received the 4MB default. Additionally, GetTotalAddressableMemory()
classifies BARs by 32/64-bit address width rather than by the
prefetchable flag that QEMU's mem-reserve vs pref64-reserve maps to.

Modern QEMU introspects VFIO device BARs when they are attached to
root ports and sizes the MMIO windows accordingly. Modern OVMF
(edk2-stable202502+) automatically calculates the 64-bit PCI MMIO
aperture based on the BARs of actually present devices during PCI
enumeration. Omitting the reserve parameters lets QEMU and OVMF
handle MMIO window sizing correctly for all device types including
GPUs, NVSwitches, and NICs without requiring host-side BAR scanning.

This also removes the nvpci dependency from qemu_arch_base.go.

Signed-off-by: Zvonko Kaiser <zkaiser@nvidia.com>
2026-02-27 22:54:31 +01:00
Zvonko Kaiser
bb7fd335f3 qemu: Remove OVMF X-PciMmio64Mb fw_cfg hint
Modern OVMF (edk2-stable202502 and later) automatically sizes the
64-bit PCI MMIO aperture based on the BARs of actually attached
devices during PCI enumeration. The opt/ovmf/X-PciMmio64Mb fw_cfg
hint is no longer needed to ensure large-BAR devices like NVIDIA
GPUs receive adequate MMIO space.

The previous approach was fragile: the runtime scanned host PCI
devices to estimate the required aperture size, but only considered
GPU devices (class 0x0302), missing NVSwitches and other devices
with large BARs. Removing this code avoids confusion about MMIO
sizing responsibility.

Signed-off-by: Zvonko Kaiser <zkaiser@nvidia.com>
2026-02-27 22:54:31 +01:00
Fabiano Fidêncio
0a73638744 runtime: add configurable kubelet root dir
Different kubernetes distributions, such as k0s, use a different kubelet
root dir location instead of the default /var/lib/kubelet, so ConfigMap
and Secret volume propagation were failing.

This adds a kubelet_root_dir config option that the go runtime uses when
matching volume paths and kata-deploy now sets it automatically for k0s
via a drop-in file.

runtime-rs does not need this option: it identifies ConfigMap/Secret,
projected, and downward-api volumes by volume-type path segment
(kubernetes.io~configmap, etc.), not by kubelet root prefix.

Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
2026-02-27 14:10:57 +01:00
Steve Horsman
3442fc7d07 Merge pull request #12477 from kata-containers/workflow-improvements
workflow: Recommended improvements
2026-02-27 11:57:22 +00:00
Markus Rudy
d9d886b419 agent-policy: read bundle-id from OCI spec rootfs
The host path of bundles is not portable and could be literally anything
depending on containerd configuration, so we can't rely on a specific
prefix when deriving the bundle-id. Instead, we derive the bundle-id
from the target root path in the guest.

NOTE: fixes https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/10065

Signed-off-by: Markus Rudy <mr@edgeless.systems>
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
2026-02-27 10:24:38 +01:00
Hyounggyu Choi
be5ae7d1e1 Merge pull request #12573 from BbolroC/support-memory-hotplug-go-runtime-s390x
runtime: Support memory hotplug via virtio-mem on s390x
2026-02-27 09:59:40 +01:00
Steve Horsman
1048132eb1 Merge pull request #12564 from stevenhorsman/remove-unused-dependencies
Try and remove unused crates
2026-02-26 13:53:44 +00:00
Aurélien Bombo
2a13f33d50 Merge pull request #12565 from microsoft/danmihai1/clh-51.1
versions: update cloud hypervisor to v51.1
2026-02-26 07:52:57 -06:00
Hyounggyu Choi
b9f3d5aa67 runtime: Support memory hotplug with virtio-mem on s390x
This commit adds logic to properly handle memory hotplug
for QemuCCWVirtio in the ExecMemdevAdd() path.

The new logic is triggered only when virtio-mem is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Hyounggyu Choi <Hyounggyu.Choi@ibm.com>
2026-02-26 14:21:34 +01:00
Hyounggyu Choi
19771671c2 runtime: Handle virtio-mem resize in hotplugAddMemory()
ResizeMemory() already contains the virtio-mem resize logic.
However, hotplugAddMemory(), which is invoked via a different
path, lacked this handling and always fell back to the pc-dimm
path, even when virtio-mem was configured.

This commit adds virtio-mem resize handling to hotplugAddMemory().
It also adds corresponding unit tests.

Signed-off-by: Hyounggyu Choi <Hyounggyu.Choi@ibm.com>
2026-02-26 14:21:34 +01:00
stevenhorsman
bdbfe9915b kata-ctl: Remove unused crates
cargo machete has identified the follow crates as unused:
- containerd-shim-protos
- safe-path
- strum
- ttrpc

strum is neded (and maybe isn't picked up due to it being
used by macros?), so add it to the ignore list and remove
the rest

Signed-off-by: stevenhorsman <steven@uk.ibm.com>
2026-02-26 09:38:35 +00:00
stevenhorsman
b4365bdcaa genpolicy: Remove unused crates
`cargo machete` has identified `openssl` and `serde-transcode`
as being un-used. openssl is required, so add it to the ignore
list and just remove serde-transcode

Signed-off-by: stevenhorsman <steven@uk.ibm.com>
2026-02-26 09:38:35 +00:00
stevenhorsman
382c6d2a2f agent-ctl: Remove unused crates
`log` and `rustjail` are flagged by cargo machete as unused,
so lets remove them to reduce the footprint of crates in this tool

Signed-off-by: stevenhorsman <steven@uk.ibm.com>
2026-02-26 09:38:35 +00:00
stevenhorsman
e43a17c2ba runtime-rs: Remove unused crates
- Remove unused crates to reduce our size and the work needed
to do updates
- Also update package.metadata.cargo-machete with some crates
that are incorrectly coming up as unused

Signed-off-by: stevenhorsman <steven@uk.ibm.com>
2026-02-26 09:37:46 +00:00
stevenhorsman
8177a440ca libs: Remove unused crates
Remove unused crates to reduce our size and the work needed
to do updates

Signed-off-by: stevenhorsman <steven@uk.ibm.com>
2026-02-26 09:37:46 +00:00
stevenhorsman
ed7ef68510 dragonball: Remove unused crates
Remove the crates that cargo machete has assessed as being unused

Signed-off-by: stevenhorsman <steven@uk.ibm.com>
2026-02-26 09:37:15 +00:00
stevenhorsman
c1b8c6bce6 dragonball: Update cargo-machete config
cargo machete can't understand `host-device = ["dep:vfio-bindings"`,
so tell it to ignore `vfio-bindings` and not suggest it's unused

Signed-off-by: stevenhorsman <steven@uk.ibm.com>
2026-02-26 09:37:14 +00:00
stevenhorsman
1139a9bb8a trace-forwarder: Try and remove unused crates
I ran cargo machete in trace-forwarder and it suggested that some
of the packages were not used, including a chain with a vulnerability,
so try and remove them to resolve RUSTSEC-2021-0139

Signed-off-by: stevenhorsman <steven@uk.ibm.com>
2026-02-26 09:37:14 +00:00
Steve Horsman
675c0c3450 Merge pull request #12553 from kata-containers/dependabot/cargo/src/tools/agent-ctl/keccak-0.1.6
build(deps): bump keccak from 0.1.5 to 0.1.6 in /src/tools/agent-ctl
2026-02-26 08:53:57 +00:00
Dan Mihai
7973e4e2a8 runtime: clh: disable nested vCPUs on MSHV
The recently-added nested property is true by default, but is not
supported yet on MSHV.

See cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor#7408 for additional information.

Signed-off-by: Dan Mihai <dmihai@microsoft.com>
2026-02-25 21:01:25 +00:00
Dan Mihai
24ac2ccb5c runtime-rs: clh: specify raw image format
Specify raw image format for all guest block devices.

- Attempting to auto-detect the image format from CLH would be riskier
  for the Host.

- Creating a new raw image file, auto-detecting its format, and then
  creating a filesystem from the Guest onto the block device is no
  longer supported by CLH v51. Therefore, Kata CI's k8s-block-volume.bats
  would fail without specifying the raw format when hot plugging its block
  device.

- See cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor@b3e8e2a for additional information.

Signed-off-by: Dan Mihai <dmihai@microsoft.com>
2026-02-25 21:01:25 +00:00
Dan Mihai
dc398e801c runtime: clh: specify raw image format
Specify raw image format for all guest block devices.

- Attempting to auto-detect the image format from CLH would be riskier
  for the Host.

- Creating a new raw image file, auto-detecting its format, and then
  creating a filesystem from the Guest onto the block device is no
  longer supported by CLH v51. Therefore, Kata CI's k8s-block-volume.bats
  would fail without specifying the raw format when hot plugging its block
  device.

- See cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor@b3e8e2a for additional information.

Signed-off-by: Dan Mihai <dmihai@microsoft.com>
2026-02-25 21:01:25 +00:00
Dan Mihai
0629354ca0 versions: update cloud hypervisor to v51.1
```
v51.1
=====

This is a bug fix release. The following issues have been addressed:

* Fix image_type in OpenAPI definition (#7734)

v51.0
=====

This release has been tracked in v51.0 group of our roadmap project.

Security Fixes

This release fixes a security vulnerability in disk image handling.
Details can be found in GHSA-jmr4-g2hv-mjj6.

* A new `backing_files=on|off` option has been added to `--disk` to
  explicitly control whether QCOW2 backing files are permitted. This
  defaults to `off` to prevent the loading of backing files entirely.
  (#7685)
* Explicit image type specification via the user interface, removing
  reliance on format autodetection (#7728).
* Prevent sector-zero writes for autodetected raw images (#7728).

Significant QCOW2 v3 Improvements

A large number of QCOW2 v3 specification features have been implemented:

* RAW backing file support for QCOW2 overlays (#7570)
* Zero bit in L2 entries (#7627)
* Incompatible feature bit validation (#7612)
* Dirty bit support (#7636)
* Variable refcount widths (1 to 64-bit) (#7633)
* Corrupt bit detection and marking (#7639)
* Autoclear feature bits handling (#7648)
* Thread safety fix for multiple virtio queues (`num_queues > 1`)
  (#7661)
* Correct zero-fill for reads beyond backing file size (#7678)
* Live disk resize support (#7687)

ACPI Generic Initiator Support

ACPI Generic Initiator Affinity (SRAT Type 5) support has been added
to associate VFIO-PCI devices with dedicated memory/CPU-less NUMA
nodes. This enables the guest OS to make NUMA-aware memory allocation
decisions for device workloads. A new `device_id` parameter has been
added to `--numa` for specifying VFIO devices. (#7626)

Block Device DISCARD and WRITE_ZEROES Support

The `virtio-blk` device now supports `DISCARD` and `WRITE_ZEROES`
operations for QCOW2 and RAW image formats. This enables thin
provisioning and efficient space reclamation when guests trim
filesystems. A new `sparse=on|off` option has been added to `--disk` to
control disk space management: `sparse=on` (default) enables thin
provisioning with space reclamation, while `sparse=off` provides thick
provisioning with consistent I/O latency. (#7666)

Notable Performance Improvements

* Transparent Huge Pages (THP) support has been extended to cover
  anonymous shared memory (`shared=on`) via `madvise`. Previously, THP
  was only used for non-shared memory. (#7646)
* The `vhost-user-net` device now uses the default set of vhost-user
  virtio features, including `VIRTIO_F_RING_INDIRECT_DESC`, which
  provides a performance improvement. (#7653)

MSHV Support Improvements

* Optimize CPU state update after emulation by only updating special
  registers when changed (#7603)
* Enable SMT for guests with `threads_per_core > 1` (#7668)
* Stub `save_data_tables()` to unblock VM pause/resume (#7692)
* Handle `GHCB_INFO_SPECIAL_DBGPRINT` VMG exit in SEV-SNP guest exit
  handler (#7703)
* Fix CVM boot failure on MSHV (#7548)
* Fix CPU topology detection for multithreaded configurations (#7576)

Notable Bug Fixes

* Fix VFIO device hot-remove leaving group and container file
  descriptors open, preventing re-add (#7676)
* Fix snapshot restore when backing file is on read-only storage with
  `shared=false` (#7674)
* Enforce `VIRTIO_BLK_F_RO` even if guest does not negotiate it
  (#7705)
* Fix read-only block device FLUSH requests from OVMF preventing VMs
  from booting (#7706)
* Fix vhost-user device not properly dropping unowned file descriptors
  (#7679)
* Fix `vhost-user-block` `get_config` interoperability (#7617)
* Fix vsock TOCTOU race condition by copying packet header from guest
  memory before processing (#7530)
* Fix vsock handling of large TX packets spanning multiple data
  descriptors (#7680)
* Add `gettid()` to all seccomp filters (#7596)
* Fix MAC address parsing that wrongly allowed `+` instead of hex
  characters (#7579)
* Improve UUID parse error message and `--net` fd help text (#7702)
* Fix various inconsistencies in our OpenAPI specification file
  (#7716, #7726)
* Various documentation fixes (#7602, #7606)
```

Signed-off-by: Dan Mihai <dmihai@microsoft.com>
2026-02-25 21:01:25 +00:00