From: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 10:35:16 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: NEWS: Mention 'absolute' clock offset
X-Git-Tag: v8.4.0-rc2^0
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=60d18ff746dcf7bd5614b75fe92570d02fb3414c;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git

NEWS: Mention 'absolute' clock offset

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index b0d4297d53..e50010f9b2 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ v8.4.0 (unreleased)
 
     Support for the recently released IBM Power10 processor was added.
 
+  * qemu: Introduce ``absolute`` clock offset
+
+    The ``absolute`` clock offset type allows to set the guest clock to an
+    arbitrary epoch timestamp at each start. This is useful if some VM needs
+    to be kept set to an arbitrary time for e.g. testing or working around
+    broken software.
+
 * **Improvements**
 
 * **Bug fixes**