From: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 15:08:45 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: NEWS: Mention the qemu device property override feature
X-Git-Tag: v8.2.0-rc1~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=28e45ffcccfd1ca3f0fb5094b6084d8335ee6151;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git

NEWS: Mention the qemu device property override feature

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index b9b9807625..754687ac4d 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ v8.2.0 (unreleased)
     migration allowing migration to proceed even when the user expects certificate
     name not to match.
 
+  * qemu: Allow overrides of device properties via the qemu namespace
+
+    Users wishing to override or modify properties of devices configured by
+    libvirt can use the ``<qemu:deviceOverride>`` QEMU namespace element to
+    specify the overrides instead of relying on the argv passthrough of the
+    ``-set`` qemu commandline option which no longer works with new qemu.
+
 * **Bug fixes**
 
   * Both build and tests should now pass on Alpine Linux or any other