From: Roman Bogorodskiy <bogorodskiy@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 17:24:08 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: news: document bhyve new features for 12.0.0
X-Git-Tag: v12.0.0-rc2~3
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8d5fdea28710da8ad0d0eb1fea61500c84268e63;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git

news: document bhyve new features for 12.0.0

Signed-off-by: Roman Bogorodskiy <bogorodskiy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 6ca49a4c1b..a0fae3c661 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,31 @@ v12.0.0 (unreleased)
 
 * **New features**
 
+  * bhyve: SLIRP networking support
+
+    Domain XMLs now can use SLIRP user-mode networking::
+
+     <interface type='user'>
+       <model type='virtio'/>
+     </interface>
+
+  * bhyve: virtio-scsi support
+
+    Domain XMLs now can use ``virtio-scsi`` devices::
+
+     <disk type='ctl'>
+       <source dev='/dev/cam/ctl'/>
+       <target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>
+     </disk>
+
+  * bhyve: initial ARM64 support
+
+    The bhyve driver now supports booting ARM64 domains on ARM64 hosts.
+    This support is still in early stage of development and has some
+    limitations. For example, it requires using
+    ``<clock offset='localtime'/>`` in domain XMLs, and
+    bootrom autofill is not implemented.
+
 * **Improvements**
 
   * qemu: Improvements and fixes to firmware selection