Finally a new vfkit release with many interesting new features, initial macOS guest support, NBD support, ignition/cloud-init support and a lot more, as well as many cleanups and bug fixes. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

What's Changed

New features

• Add support for nvme devices by @cgwalters in #78
• feat: add support for NBD by @lstocchi in #212
• Add support for running macOS guests. by @williamtheaker in #148
• ignition: add support for ignition config file by @lstocchi in #209
• cloudinit: leverage virtio-blk to push cloud-init configuration by @lstocchi in #207
• Add readonly option for storage devices by @nirs in #179
• rosetta: add option to ignore rosetta failure when installation cancelled by @lstocchi in #202
• Report list of devices in the REST API by @cfergeau in #99

Bug fixes/code cleanups/...

• Many dependencies updates, see full commit log for details
• timesync: Fix automatic vsock device creation by @cfergeau in #191
• virtionet: Fix 'path too long' issues with virtio-net unixgram Support by @cfergeau in #195
• tests: Add basic e2e test by @cfergeau in #61
• refactor: improve code for wait vm to reach the specified state by @BlackHole1 in #75
• refactor(vsock): call proxy.Close when vm stop by @BlackHole1 in #74
• feat(config): add AddDevices function by @BlackHole1 in #89
• refactor: improve function comments by @BlackHole1 in #90
• Make e2e tests more robust by @cfergeau in #100
• Generate vfkit version from git tag by @cfergeau in #69
• json: test: Add 'stability' JSON test by @cfergeau in #103
• Add vf.VirtualMachine and vf.VirtualMachineConfiguration types by @cfergeau in #112
• Minor doc improvements. by @williamtheaker in #141
• Move linting to separate job. by @williamtheaker in #156
• gh: Stop using macos11 runners by @cfergeau in #164
• Fix linting issues by @cfergeau in #185
• doc: Fix recently reported issues by @cfergeau in #181
• virtionet: testing connectUnixPath by @lstocchi in #199
• doc: Set minimum supported version to macOS 12 by @cfergeau in #197
• contrib: update start-crc-bundle to use UEFI boot by @lstocchi in #201
• Add Luca to OWNERS by @cfergeau in #226
• doc: Document the 'state' value in GET /vm/status by @cfergeau in #224

New Contributors

• @williamtheaker made their first contribution in #141
• @nirs made their first contribution in #179
• @lstocchi made their first contribution in #199

Full Changelog: v0.5.1...v0.6.0