From: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 04:19:50 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: NEWS: document support for VFIO variant drivers
X-Git-Tag: v9.7.0-rc1~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b3715f6e0e29b3c9e8c42e1ed6a39753af6003cf;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git

NEWS: document support for VFIO variant drivers

Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 3571c01b29..e40c8ac259 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,17 @@ v9.7.0 (unreleased)
 
 * **New features**
 
+  * qemu: basic support for use of "VFIO variant" drivers
+
+    A VFIO variant driver is a device-specific driver that can
+    be used in place of the generic vfio-pci driver, and provides
+    extra functionality to support things like live migration of
+    guests with vfio-assigned devices. It can currently be used by:
+
+    1) setting ``managed='no'`` in the XML configuration for the device
+    2) pre-binding the variant driver using the ``--driver`` option of
+       ``virsh nodedev-detach``.
+
 * **Improvements**
 
 * **Bug fixes**