Virtualization

The following features, enhancements, and changes related to virtualization are introduced in this Oracle Linux 9 release.

QEMU Updated to Version 9.0.0

The qemu-kvm packages are updated to version 9.0.0.

See https://www.qemu.org/2024/04/23/qemu-9-0-0/ for more information.

nbdkit Updated to Version 1.38

The nbdkit package is updated to version 1.38 to include many bug fixes and enhancements. Network Block Device (NBD) is a network protocol for accessing block devices over the network. Block devices are hard disks and things that behave as hard disks such as disk images and virtual machines. nbdkit is a toolkit for creating NBD servers.

See https://libguestfs.org/nbdkit-release-notes-1.38.1.html for more information