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@acatangiu acatangiu released this 04 Apr 15:20
  • Users can now enforce that an emulated block device is read-only via the API.
    To specify whether a block device is read-only or read-write, an extra
    "permissions" field was added to the Drive definition in the API.
    The root filesystem is automatically mounted in the guest OS as ro/rw
    according to the specified "permissions". It's the responsibility of the user
    to mount any other read-only block device as such within the guest OS.
  • Users can now stop the guest VM using the API.
    Actions of type 'InstanceHalt' are now supported via the API.
  • Added support for getDeviceID() in virtIO-block.
    Without this, the guest Linux kernel would complain at boot time that
    the operation was unsupported.
  • STDIN control is returned to the Firecracker process when guest VM is inactive.
    Raw mode STDIN is forwarded to the guest OS when guest VM is running.
    'blockdev --report' and when checking /sys/block//ro).
  • Users can now interrogate Instance Information (currently just instance state)
    through the API.