Prepare v0.17.0 release

[bchalios]

Summary of the PR

Prepare new release

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[bchalios]

Closing this one in favour of #326

[roypat]

hey, I'd like to wait a bit more with 0.17 in hopes of getting #312 in and maybe even #321 if that's okay? I'll prepare a 0.16.2 release with just the vmm-sys-util version broadening, which should make all the propagation of that crate a bit easier