nfvbenchvm: release 0.16

- separate loop VM and generator VM version numbers (a first step
  towards using nfvbench version number for the generator VM)
- increase loop VM version number
- Add a release note page dedicated to nfvbench loop VM

Signed-off-by: Gwenael Lambrouin <gwenael.lambrouin@orange.com>
Change-Id: I2bc651eb315bfa889e5dd1d56f69e2c3d9219646

5 files changed, 108 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/docs/development/building/build.rst b/docs/development/building/build.rst
index 00c1c98..aeda059 100644
--- a/docs/development/building/build.rst
+++ b/docs/development/building/build.rst
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ This container includes the following parts:
 - NFVbench orchestration
 - NFVbench test VM (qcow2)
 
+.. _nfvbench-artefact-versioning:
+
 Versioning
 ----------
 These 3 parts are versioned independently and the Dockerfile will determine the combination of versions that
diff --git a/docs/release/release-notes/index.rst b/docs/release/release-notes/index.rst
index 12acbab..5f3f9f6 100644
--- a/docs/release/release-notes/index.rst
+++ b/docs/release/release-notes/index.rst
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ NFVbench Release Notes
    :maxdepth: 1
 
    release-notes
+   nfvbenchvm-release-notes
diff --git a/docs/release/release-notes/nfvbenchvm-release-notes.rst b/docs/release/release-notes/nfvbenchvm-release-notes.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..234a086
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release/release-notes/nfvbenchvm-release-notes.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
+
+
+NFVbench Loop VM Image Release Notes
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+
+As explained in :ref:`nfvbench-artefact-versioning`, NFVbench loop VM image has
+its own version numbering scheme.  Starting from version 0.11, this page
+summarizes the news of each release.
+
+
+Release 0.16 (2022-11-15)
+=========================
+
+Fixes:
+
+- Increase wait for VPP service from 10 to 30 seconds (10s is not enough on some
+  setups) and poll every second instead of sleeping 10s.
+
+- Set the MTU of the management interface to 1500 by default (to reduce the risk
+  to get an unmanageable VM).  A different value can be set using the
+  ``INTF_MGMT_MTU`` variable in ``/etc/nfvbenchvm.conf``.
+
+Changes for developers:
+
+- Add 2 debug features to ``build-image.sh``:
+
+  - The new option ``-t`` (enable debug traces) allows to show in the build log
+    the commands run in the shell scripts, including the commands defined in the
+    disk image builder elements.
+
+  - The new option ``-d`` (debug) instructs ``disk-image-create`` to drop the
+    developer in a shell inside the chroot in case an error occurs.  This makes
+    troubleshooting of the image possible (inspect files, run commands, ...)
+
+- Abort build on error: make sure a VM image build fails if any step fails.
+  Else we can end up with a bad image not containing all that we want, and we
+  discover this later at run time.
+
+- Fix build with diskimage_builder (dib) 3.16.0.
+
+- Switch VPP package repository to packagecloud.io instead of nexus.fd.io.  This
+  fixes intermittent access issues with nexus.fd.io and this will make it
+  possible to get vpp releases higher than 19.08.
+
+- Separate loop VM and generator VM version numbers (a first step towards using
+  nfvbench version number for the generator VM).
+
+
+Release 0.15 (2021-06-04)
+=========================
+
+- NFVBENCH-211 Fix VPP driver for loop VM (switch UIO driver for VPP forwarder:
+  use ``uio_pci_generic`` instead of ``igb_uio``).
+
+
+Release 0.14 (2021-05-21)
+=========================
+
+- NFVBENCH-209 Fix NFVbench loopvm build failed on testpmd step (includes switch
+  UIO driver for testmpd forwarder: use ``uio_pci_generic`` instead of
+  ``igb_uio``).
+
+
+Release 0.13 (2021-04-28)
+=========================
+
+- NFVBENCH-196: New NFVbench image for generator part (nfvbench and TRex codes inside VM)
+- Change Linux kernel boot-time configuration (kernel CLI parameters):
+
+  - Extend CPU isolation (``isolcpus=1-7`` instead of ``isolcpus=1``)
+  - Increase the number of 1GB huge pages (``hugepages=4`` instead of ``hugepages=2``)
+  - Enable IOMMU (``intel_iommu=on iommu=pt``)
+
+- Load the ``vfio-pci`` kernel module with the ``enable_unsafe_noiommu_mode=1`` option.
+
+
+Release 0.12 (2020-01-23)
+=========================
+
+- NFVBENCH-157 Add possibility to not use the ARP static configuration for VPP loop VM
+
+
+Release 0.11 (2019-11-26)
+=========================
+
+- NFVBENCH-156 Add management interface and ssh config in NFVBench image
+
+
+Earlier releases
+================
+
+See NFVbench commit history.
diff --git a/docs/release/release-notes/release-notes.rst b/docs/release/release-notes/release-notes.rst
index b9f6cdd..cbb44c5 100644
--- a/docs/release/release-notes/release-notes.rst
+++ b/docs/release/release-notes/release-notes.rst
@@ -7,12 +7,13 @@ RELEASE NOTES
 
 Release 3.6.2
 =============
-NFVBENCH-152 Add service_mode method for debugging purpose
-NFVBENCH-150 Add support for VXLAN latency
-NFVBENCH-146 Add cache_size option
-NFVBENCH-151 Allocate hugepages on two NUMAs in nfvbenchvm
-NFVBENCH-149 Negative latency exception during NDR/PDR search
-NFVBENCH-148 Increase the waiting time based on # of instances
+
+- NFVBENCH-152 Add service_mode method for debugging purpose
+- NFVBENCH-150 Add support for VXLAN latency
+- NFVBENCH-146 Add cache_size option
+- NFVBENCH-151 Allocate hugepages on two NUMAs in nfvbenchvm
+- NFVBENCH-149 Negative latency exception during NDR/PDR search
+- NFVBENCH-148 Increase the waiting time based on # of instances
 
 Release 3.5.1
 =============
diff --git a/nfvbenchvm/dib/build-image.sh b/nfvbenchvm/dib/build-image.sh
index 8ee9bf3..c5d24da 100755
--- a/nfvbenchvm/dib/build-image.sh
+++ b/nfvbenchvm/dib/build-image.sh
@@ -19,9 +19,10 @@ __prefix__=""
 gs_url=artifacts.opnfv.org/nfvbench/images
 
 # image version number
-__version__=0.15
-loopvm_image_name=nfvbenchvm_centos-$__version__
-generator_image_name=nfvbenchvm_centos-generator-$__version__
+__loopvm_version__=0.16
+__generator_version__=0.15
+loopvm_image_name=nfvbenchvm_centos-$__loopvm_version__
+generator_image_name=nfvbenchvm_centos-generator-$__generator_version__
 
 # Default values for nfvbenchvm dib element variables
 export DIB_NFVBENCH_CODE_ORIGIN=opnfv-gerrit