Firecracker-v0.2.0
Pre-release
Pre-release
- 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.