Add NEWS item for auto-shutdown feature

Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
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@@ -35,6 +35,23 @@ v11.2.0 (unreleased)
     or even map them to specific virtqueues similarly to the ``virtio-blk``
     device allowing for better performance in certain scenarios.
 
+  * qemu: integrate support for VM shutdown on host shutdown
+
+    It is now possible to instruct the QEMU driver to automatically perform
+    managed save, graceful shutdown, or hard poweroff on running VMs, when a
+    host shutdown is requested. This feature is intended to eventually replace
+    usage of the libvirt-guests script. The new approach improves on the
+    libvirt-guests script, by proactively monitor logind for a signal that a
+    host shutdown has been requested. It will initiate the chosen action on
+    running guests immediately, allowing shutdown inhibitors to be released
+    sooner. The new solution is also able to iteratively try multiple actions
+    until one of them succeeeds in shutting down the VM.
+
+    Since it must be mutually exclusive with the libvirt-guests script, this
+    feature currently requires an manual opt-in through editting of the
+    /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf configuration file. The libvirt-guests script must
+    be disabled before doing this.
+
 * **Improvements**
 
 * **Bug fixes**