From b3715f6e0e29b3c9e8c42e1ed6a39753af6003cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laine Stump Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:19:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: document support for VFIO variant drivers Signed-off-by: Laine Stump Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik --- NEWS.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 3571c01b29..e40c8ac259 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -17,6 +17,17 @@ v9.7.0 (unreleased) * **New features** + * qemu: basic support for use of "VFIO variant" drivers + + A VFIO variant driver is a device-specific driver that can + be used in place of the generic vfio-pci driver, and provides + extra functionality to support things like live migration of + guests with vfio-assigned devices. It can currently be used by: + + 1) setting ``managed='no'`` in the XML configuration for the device + 2) pre-binding the variant driver using the ``--driver`` option of + ``virsh nodedev-detach``. + * **Improvements** * **Bug fixes**