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What this PR does

This lets kubevirt-csi detach volumes without the deprecated KubeVirt HotplugVolumes gate. The default stays as it is, so nothing changes at runtime yet. Part of #4032.

The driver got a switch upstream for exactly this, and I bumped to it. kubevirt/csi-driver#382 added --enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback, merged as cb4770e4e475. With it set to false, the driver no longer calls the VMI-level removevolume on a VMI owned by a VM. virt-api rejects that call once HotplugVolumes is off.

Our wrapper now passes the flag to upstream and no longer has its own hot-unplug path. unpublishHotplugVolume was a backport of kubevirt/csi-driver#184, and the previous pin already contained that change. Upstream detaches from the VMI when the VM is gone, then waits for the VMI status to drop the volume before it returns. So the wrapper's re-check never found the volume attached. Adding the ownership check there would have been dead code.

Closes #4450

The chart leaves the flag at its default of true and does not render it. The driver image in the chart is stamped only at release preparation, so between releases main runs the previous release's binary, which does not know the flag. Go's flag package exits on an unknown flag. Rendering =true would crash-loop the CSI controller for no effect. The right value depends on the KubeVirt CR, not on the tenant, so the comment next to HotplugVolumes in kubevirt-cr.yaml points at the controller Deployment. The follow-up PR drops the gate and renders the flag as false.

Nothing changes on the node side. Main already pins f5de10d39556, and cb4770e4e475 is that commit plus kubevirt/csi-driver#382.

A Go unit test runs an unpublish through the wrapper during a teardown, with the flag on, off with a VM-owned VMI, and off with an orphaned VMI. It checks that the flag reaches upstream and that only upstream makes the VMI-level call. Upstream's own tests cover the ownership rule. A second test holds that an NFS volume only releases the node from its CiliumNetworkPolicy and never reaches the upstream hot-unplug. A helm-unittest pins that the chart renders no such argument. I haven't built the image or run e2e. Volume attach and detach on a tenant cluster in e2e is the real check.

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feat(kubernetes): kubevirt-csi supports --enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback, so it can detach volumes without the KubeVirt HotplugVolumes feature gate. The flag stays true for now and behaviour is unchanged.

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The CSI driver adds a configurable VMI hotplug fallback setting and passes it to the controller service. Non-NFS volume unpublish now calls the upstream controller. Tests cover fallback behavior and NFS policy cleanup.

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VMI hotplug fallback

Layer / File(s) Summary
Fallback setting and service wiring
packages/apps/kubernetes/images/kubevirt-csi-driver/main.go, packages/apps/kubernetes/images/kubevirt-csi-driver/go.mod, packages/apps/kubernetes/tests/csi_vmi_hotplug_fallback_test.yaml, packages/system/kubevirt/templates/kubevirt-cr.yaml
The driver adds a fallback flag that defaults to true and passes it to the controller service through a construction helper. The driver replacement version changes. A Helm test checks that rendered arguments omit the flag, and a KubeVirt template comment notes the related feature-gate setting.
Controller unpublish behavior
packages/apps/kubernetes/images/kubevirt-csi-driver/controller.go, packages/apps/kubernetes/images/kubevirt-csi-driver/controller_test.go
The controller calls the upstream controller for non-NFS volumes. Tests cover fallback behavior for VM-owned and orphaned VMIs, and check that NFS unpublish updates or deletes network policies without VM or VMI lookups.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bb1b2

Production wiring is consistent, but the hot-unplug test has a narrow false-success gap that should be addressed before relying on it for regression protection.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to bb1b2

The current deployment retains its existing fallback behavior, and the reviewed tests cover the intended ownership-dependent removal decisions. Detach completion now depends on the updated upstream driver, whose full recovery behavior could not be verified here.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The changed decision affects non-NFS detach requests handled by this CSI controller and the corresponding infrastructure VMIs; the reviewed change does not add a request-controlled fallback setting.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Ownership-sensitive VMI removal is delegated to the upstream controller. The local tests demonstrate the intended call selection, not upstream authorization or completion enforcement under races.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — A premature successful detach could leave a volume attached and obstruct subsequent attachment. The removed wrapper addressed that failure mode, but the available source does not establish that the pinned upstream controller has it.
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In `@packages/apps/kubernetes/images/kubevirt-csi-driver/controller_test.go`:
- Around line 58-60: Update teardownClient.EnsureVolumeRemoved to return an
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The core change is sound and well verified. I confirmed the --enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback flag name and the ownedByVirtualMachine helper byte-for-byte against the pinned upstream driver (cb4770e4e475), the default-behavior-unchanged claim holds (helm renders identically save the one literal arg, which matches the Go flag's own default), and the mutation pass over the new guard leaves no gap. Both conjunct terms of the guard are covered by tests.

One thing worth a second look, easy to miss because CI is green. deploy.yaml passes --enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback=true explicitly, but images/kubevirt-csi-driver.tag is not touched by this PR and still pins v1.6.0@sha256:d6326e…, an image built before this flag existed. The in-tree E2E builds the image from your source, so it never sees the mismatch, but a make apply off main between now and the next release cut deploys that pinned pre-flag image with the new arg. flag.Parse() runs ExitOnError, so the guest csi-controller gets flag provided but not defined and crashloops. Releases are safe, since cozystack-ci re-stamps every image tag at release time. Because the flag already defaults to true, the explicit arg is redundant, and dropping it removes the skew window with no behavior change (2dfe380 added a flag the same way, without editing deploy.yaml, for exactly this reason).

Not blocking: the PR body notes no e2e or image build was run. The unit, helm-unittest and mutation coverage make that fine, but a smoke of the built image is what would have surfaced the tag/flag skew above.

- "--run-node-service=false"
# true only while packages/system/kubevirt enables HotplugVolumes:
# without that gate virt-api rejects removevolume on a VM-owned VMI.
- "--enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback=true"

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[MINOR] Explicit --enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback=true is redundant and skews against the un-bumped pinned image

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It is gone at the current head: templates/csi/deploy.yaml no longer differs from main, and the driver relies on the flag's default of true. tests/csi_vmi_hotplug_fallback_test.yaml now pins that the chart renders no --enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback argument at all, because Go's flag package exits on an unknown flag and an image built before the flag existed would crash on it.

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packages/apps/kubernetes/tests/csi_vmi_hotplug_fallback_test.yaml (1)

26-28: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover all Go boolean spellings for the fallback flag.

The test intends to keep the driver at its default while HotplugVolumes remains enabled. notContains checks exact array elements, so --enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback=0 passes all three current assertions. The current deployment does not contain the flag, so this is a test-coverage improvement, not a deployment failure.

Add the remaining boolean spellings accepted by Go:

Suggested test additions
       - notContains:
           path: spec.template.spec.containers[0].args
           content: "--enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback=false"
+      - notContains:
+          path: spec.template.spec.containers[0].args
+          content: "--enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback=1"
+      - notContains:
+          path: spec.template.spec.containers[0].args
+          content: "--enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback=0"
+      - notContains:
+          path: spec.template.spec.containers[0].args
+          content: "--enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback=t"
+      - notContains:
+          path: spec.template.spec.containers[0].args
+          content: "--enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback=f"
+      - notContains:
+          path: spec.template.spec.containers[0].args
+          content: "--enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback=T"
+      - notContains:
+          path: spec.template.spec.containers[0].args
+          content: "--enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback=F"
+      - notContains:
+          path: spec.template.spec.containers[0].args
+          content: "--enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback=TRUE"
+      - notContains:
+          path: spec.template.spec.containers[0].args
+          content: "--enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback=FALSE"
+      - notContains:
+          path: spec.template.spec.containers[0].args
+          content: "--enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback=True"
+      - notContains:
+          path: spec.template.spec.containers[0].args
+          content: "--enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback=False"
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In `@packages/apps/kubernetes/tests/csi_vmi_hotplug_fallback_test.yaml` around
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`spec.template.spec.containers[0].args` to reject every Go-accepted boolean
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In `@packages/apps/kubernetes/tests/csi_vmi_hotplug_fallback_test.yaml`:
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Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei) force-pushed the feat/kubevirt-csi-vmi-hotplug-fallback-flag branch 3 times, most recently from 6ca1ea5 to 1448fca Compare September 28, 2026 17:03
kubevirt/csi-driver cb4770e4e475 adds the flag so the driver can run
against KubeVirt without the deprecated HotplugVolumes gate: with it
off, a volume missing from VM.spec is not unplugged through the
VMI-level removevolume on a VM-owned VMI, which virt-api rejects once
that gate is gone. Bump to it and hand the flag to the upstream
controller service. The flag defaults to true, which keeps the detach
path as it was. cb4770e4e475 is the previous pin plus that one change.

The wrapper's own hot-unplug override goes. It was a backport of
kubevirt/csi-driver#184, and the previous pin already contained that
change: upstream detaches from the VMI when the VM is gone and waits
for the VMI status to drop the volume before returning, so the
wrapper's re-check never found it attached. Keeping it would have
meant a second copy of the new ownership rule behind a branch nothing
reaches.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <[email protected]>
The right value of --enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback is decided by the
KubeVirt CR in packages/system/kubevirt, not by the tenant: it must stay
true while that CR enables HotplugVolumes and turn false in the same
change that drops the gate. A note beside the gate in the CR points at
the controller Deployment, and a helm-unittest pins the flag off the
rendered args.

The chart relies on the driver default instead of rendering =true. The
driver image is stamped only at release preparation, so between
releases the chart on main runs the previous release's binary, which
does not know the flag, and Go's flag package exits on an unknown one:
rendering the default would crash-loop the controller for no effect.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <[email protected]>
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IvanHunters The chart doesn't pass --enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback anymore, so the pinned v1.6.0 image keeps starting. The driver default is true, and a helm-unittest fails if the flag shows up in the controller args. Only #4453 renders it, as =false, and that ships together with the rebuilt image. The red unit job was the shadowbox cross-compile check. #4545 fixed it on main, and the branch is rebased onto that. Could you take another look?

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LGTM.

The rework since my last round is clean. The local unpublishHotplugVolume backport is gone, and the non-NFS unpublish now delegates straight to upstream, which carries that behavior natively at the bumped pin.

I checked the upstream contract at cb4770e4e475 directly. NewControllerService gained a trailing vmiHotplugFallback bool, and the PR threads the flag (default true) through the new newWrappedControllerService. At that default the upstream gate in pkg/service/controller.go never skips the VMI-level removevolume, so the detach path still does everything the deleted wrapper did: the 2-minute EnsureVolumeRemoved wait, the orphaned-VMI fall-through, the lot. The new path is a superset of the old one. go build, go vet, go test and the new helm-unittest all pass. I hardcoded the flag to true as a mutation and the disabled, VM-owned VMI case went red, so the test actually holds the plumbing instead of passing on nothing. I also merged current main (091b854) into the head and re-ran the Go tests plus the full kubernetes-chart helm-unittest, 342 of them: green.

My one note from last round is resolved. deploy.yaml is identical to main again, and csi_vmi_hotplug_fallback_test.yaml pins that the chart emits no --enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback argument, which stops an image built before the flag existed from exiting on an unknown flag.

Two non-blocking notes:

  • packages/system/kubevirt/templates/kubevirt-cr.yaml: the new comment says dropping the gate means setting --enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback=false in deploy.yaml "in the same change". The platform chart here and the per-tenant kubernetes chart (with its own digest-pinned image) don't roll out atomically, so the actual safe order is to get the flag-aware image onto tenants, flip the flag off, then drop the gate. That ordering bites in the companion PR, which does set the flag off and ships a migration for it. Here it's just worth softening the comment to "coordinate the rollout".
  • controller_test.go: the fallback test drives the process-global flag.CommandLine and resets it in t.Cleanup. That's fine while nothing in the package runs t.Parallel, but a future parallel test reading *infraClusterNamespace would race it. The t.Fatalf on a parse error is dead too, since flag.CommandLine is ExitOnError.

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## What this PR does

The kubevirt-csi node plugin now logs a warning when it cannot remove
the temp dir it uses for NFS publish. Before, the error was dropped, so
a dir left behind after a failed unmount was never reported.

The publish path temp-mounts the export root to create `/data`, then
removes the temp dir in a defer. The failure is logged, the same way the
unmount failure next to it already is, and not returned. A leftover temp
dir does not break the volume, and failing a publish that otherwise
worked only makes kubelet retry it.

A new unit test publishes an NFS volume through the fake mounter, where
the removal always fails, and checks that a warning naming the dir is
logged.

This is independent of #4451. That PR touches the same Go module but not
`node.go`.

A failed unmount still leaves the NFS root mounted. That is older than
this change and is tracked in #4561.

Closes #4466

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fix(kubernetes): the kubevirt-csi node plugin now logs a warning when it cannot remove its temporary NFS mount dir instead of dropping the error
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Failed cleanup of a temporary mount directory now produces a warning
with the directory path, making the issue easier to identify. The volume
publish operation continues to succeed when cleanup fails.

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Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei) added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 6, 2026
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## What this PR does

This turns off the deprecated KubeVirt `HotplugVolumes` gate and moves
the platform to declarative volume hotplug. It changes how every volume
hotplug on the platform works, so the title carries `!`. Closes #4032.

This PR is stacked on #4451 and has to merge after it. #4451 adds the
kubevirt-csi flag this PR flips.

The replacement gate is already on in KubeVirt 1.9, and the old gate is
the only thing keeping it off. `DeclarativeHotplugVolumes` is Beta at
v1.9.0, and Beta gates are on by default. virt-controller skips
`handleDeclarativeVolumeHotplug` while `HotplugVolumes` is on, so
dropping the old gate is what switches the new one on.

The kubevirt-csi fallback goes off in the same change. With the old gate
off, virt-api rejects the VMI-level `removevolume` on a VM-owned VMI, so
the chart now passes `--enable-vmi-hotplug-fallback=false`. The comments
next to the gate and the flag point at each other.

This needs the rebuilt kubevirt-csi image. A driver built before #4451
does not know the flag and exits on it at startup. The image is stamped
at release preparation and ships in the same release as this change, so
only a `make apply` from main before then would crash-loop the CSI
controller.

What changes at runtime on an upgrade:

- The VM-level `addvolume` and `removevolume` calls now edit `VM.spec`
directly. virt-controller then makes the VMI hotplug volumes match it,
instead of going through `VM.status.volumeRequests`.
- Volumes hot-plugged through the VM subresource are in `VM.spec`, so
they stay attached.
- During a tenant teardown, when the VM goes before its VMI, the driver
no longer calls the VMI subresource. It waits for the VMI status to drop
the volume, and the garbage collector deletes the VMI with its VM.
Upstream waits up to two minutes. If the VMI is still there after that,
the unpublish fails and is retried.

A new platform migration keeps old VMI-only volumes attached. On its
first pass virt-controller removes every hotpluggable VMI volume that is
missing from `VM.spec`. Until July 2025 kubevirt-csi attached volumes at
the VMI level (the Role then granted
`virtualmachineinstances/addvolume`), and live migration carries such a
VMI across KubeVirt updates. Without help, a tenant node not recreated
since then would lose a mounted disk on upgrade.

Migration 59 copies each such volume and its disk from the VMI into the
VM template before anything else changes. Adding a hotplug volume to the
VM spec is a valid live update in KubeVirt, so no VM needs a restart. It
runs as the platform chart's pre-upgrade hook, before the upgrade
re-points `cozystack-packages`. The KubeVirt CR and the tenant
kubernetes charts both render from that source, so the gate and the flag
cannot change before the migration has finished. It only touches VMs
that need it, logs each one, and a second run changes nothing.

The migration also makes ephemeral hotplugs permanent. A volume a user
added at the VMI level, for example with `virtctl addvolume` without
`--persist` from an older virtctl, has the same shape as kubevirt-csi's
old attachments, because virt-api builds both the same way. There is
nothing reliable to tell them apart by, so both are copied. Leaving the
user's volume out would not keep it ephemeral: the first reconcile would
unplug it from the running VM. After the upgrade it is part of `VM.spec`
and attaches again on a restart, and `virtctl removevolume` drops it.

Ephemeral hotplug stops working on VMs. With the old gate off, virt-api
refuses VMI-level `addvolume` and `removevolume` on a VMI that a VM owns
(`vmiVolumePatch` in v1.9.0). A volume on such a VMI is added and
removed through the VM from then on. A VMI without a VM is not affected.

Only running VMIs are copied. virt-controller reconciles no other VMI,
and a stopped VM builds its next VMI from `VM.spec`, so copying from a
stopped one would bring back volumes the restart was going to drop.

Migrations run only on the isp-full, isp-full-generic and isp-hosted
variants. KubeVirt comes from the platform only on isp-full and
isp-full-generic, so those are covered. On the default variant, where
packages are installed by hand, nothing runs the migration.

This optional check lists the VMIs and volumes the migration would copy.
It uses the same rule. On the default variant, run it before upgrading
and recreate each tenant node it lists:

```bash
kubectl get vm,vmi --all-namespaces --output json | jq --raw-output '
  ([.items[] | select(.kind == "VirtualMachine")
    | {key: "\(.metadata.namespace)/\(.metadata.name)", value: [.spec.template.spec.volumes[]?.name]}]
    | from_entries) as $vm
  | .items[] | select(.kind == "VirtualMachineInstance")
  | ([.metadata.ownerReferences[]? | select(.controller == true and .kind == "VirtualMachine" and (.apiVersion | startswith("kubevirt.io/"))) | .name][0]) as $owner
  | "\(.metadata.namespace)/\($owner)" as $key
  | select(.status.phase == "Running" and $owner != null and $vm[$key] != null)
  | .spec.volumes[]? | select(.dataVolume.hotpluggable == true or .persistentVolumeClaim.hotpluggable == true)
  | .name as $n | select($vm[$key] | index($n) | not)
  | "\($key) \($n)"'
```

Empty output means nothing is affected. I checked the query against the
migration's test fixtures only. Neither the query nor the migration has
run on a live cluster.

#4287 also adds a migration 59. If it merges first, this one moves to
60: the file, the version it stamps, `migrations.targetVersion`, the
bats file (its `run_migration` argument and expected `STAMP`) and
`hack/testdata/migration-59-vmi-hotplug`.

A VM with a pending hotplug request at upgrade time may also get stuck.
virt-controller still processes `VM.status.volumeRequests` before the
declarative handler, and it applies them through the VMI subresource,
which virt-api rejects once the old gate is off. The sync then fails
before the VM spec is updated, so nothing clears the request, and every
later sync of that VM fails the same way. A retry through the VM
subresource edits the spec and clears it, which covers kubevirt-csi's
own requests. A one-shot request stays stuck until the VM restarts. I
read this from the v1.9.0 code and haven't reproduced it. Waiting until
this lists nothing before upgrading narrows the window, but a request
made during the rollout can still hit it:

```bash
kubectl get vm --all-namespaces --output json | jq --raw-output '.items[] | select((.status.volumeRequests // []) | length > 0) | .metadata.namespace + "/" + .metadata.name'
```

The two halves live in different HelmReleases, so there is a short
window during the rollout where the driver and the gate disagree. In
that window an unpublish fails and is retried until both are updated.

A tenant cluster whose `kubernetes` HelmRelease is suspended or failing
keeps its old driver for longer. Drivers from before July 2025 attach
through the VMI subresource, so on such a tenant every attach is refused
until its release reconciles. Such a driver can also attach a volume
after the migration has run and before the gate flips. The migration
doesn't see that volume, and the first declarative reconcile unplugs it
from the running VM.

The migration lists the VMs once and patches each one with a
`resourceVersion` test, so a VM that changes in between fails the hook
Job. The Job has `backoffLimit: 3`, and each retry lists again and skips
the VMs already patched. Re-reading only the conflicting VM would avoid
the retry; I left that out.

The new gate is listed in the CR even though it is on by default. With
the old gate gone it is the only hotplug path, and the chart refuses a
render that disables it. I found no other user of `HotplugVolumes` in
the platform or in the downstream repositories.

The VMI-level fallback may have been failing already. The kcsi Role has
no rule for the VMI-level `removevolume` (#4452), so that call likely
got 403 with or without the gate. I haven't checked that on a cluster.

`hack/migration-59-vmi-hotplug-volumes.bats` runs the migration against
a fake kubectl: a VM that needs the copy, VMs and VMIs that must be left
alone (a VMI that is not Running among them), a second run, a cluster
without KubeVirt and the fail-closed paths. The helm-unittests for the
KubeVirt CR pin the whole gate list, accept `HotplugVolumes` in
`disabledFeatureGates` and refuse `DeclarativeHotplugVolumes` there. The
CSI test pins the flag at false, and the `make update` idempotency test
still passes. None of that exercises hotplug itself. The real test is
e2e with volume attach and detach on a tenant cluster, including a
teardown. No CI lane upgrades from the previous release yet, so an
upgrade with a live VMI-only volume is untested; #4463 tracks that test.

### Screenshots

No UI change.

### Downstream repositories

- [x] No downstream repository is affected by this change
- [ ] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/ansible-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/ansible-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/ccp](https://github.com/cozystack/ccp) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/talm](https://github.com/cozystack/talm) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozyhr](https://github.com/cozystack/cozyhr) -
follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozy-proxy](https://github.com/cozystack/cozy-proxy) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server](https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/external-apps-example](https://github.com/cozystack/external-apps-example)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/examples](https://github.com/cozystack/examples) -
follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/community](https://github.com/cozystack/community) -
follow-up:

### Release note

```release-note
feat(kubevirt)!: KubeVirt now runs with DeclarativeHotplugVolumes instead of the deprecated HotplugVolumes feature gate, and kubevirt-csi no longer uses the VMI-level hot-unplug. Volume hotplug requests are applied through VM.spec. The upgrade copies volumes that older kubevirt-csi versions attached only to the VMI into VM.spec, so they stay attached; the check in the PR description is optional. This also applies to ephemeral volumes added to running user VMs at the VMI level, such as with virtctl addvolume without --persist: they become part of VM.spec and attach again after a VM restart. virt-api now refuses VMI-level addvolume and removevolume on a VMI owned by a VM, so such volumes are added and removed through the VM. A tenant cluster whose kubernetes release is suspended or failing keeps its old kubevirt-csi, and a driver from before July 2025 cannot attach volumes there until that release reconciles, and a volume it attaches during the upgrade itself can be unplugged again. A values override that puts DeclarativeHotplugVolumes into disabledFeatureGates now fails the kubevirt render. Clusters on the default variant do not run platform migrations and should run that check before upgrading.
```





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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
  * Declarative hotplug volumes are enabled by default for KubeVirt.
* Running virtual machines keep eligible hotplugged volumes and disks
when their configuration is migrated.
* **Bug Fixes**
* The migration avoids adding duplicate volumes or disks and does not
mark the migration complete if required operations fail.
  * The Kubernetes CSI driver no longer uses the VMI hotplug fallback.

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