From: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 15:53:01 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: news: Mention support for device model commandline passthrough in Xen
X-Git-Tag: v6.7.0-rc1~25
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5af89a77b05ba3c8946898aa3e5a068c27c45a0d;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git

news: Mention support for device model commandline passthrough in Xen

Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 5e803b8b2d..2d30d5a5e8 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ v6.7.0 (unreleased)
     inside ``<hostdev>`` with the same format to configure the ``IQN`` value
     used by the qemu initiator when connecting to an iSCSI target.
 
+  * xen: Add support for device model command-line passthrough
+
+    Xen supports passing arbitrary arguments to the QEMU device model using
+    the ``device_model_args`` setting in xl.cfg(5). The libvirt xen driver now
+    supports this using ``<xen:commandline/>`` XML extensions.
+
+
 * **Improvements**
 
   * Allow sparse streams for block devices
@@ -69,6 +76,7 @@ v6.6.0 (2020-08-02)
     management applications may wish to override this behaviour. This is now
     possible via new ``cow`` element.
 
+
 * **Improvements**
 
   * esx: Change the NIC limit for recent virtualHW versions