From: Wang Xin <wangxinxin.wang@huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 08:53:00 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: news: Document the `role` attribute for shmem device
X-Git-Tag: v6.7.0-rc2~3
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e5213c93af0ff58146173cf2de0dc2ec1f53171a;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git

news: Document the `role` attribute for shmem device

Signed-off-by: Wang Xin <wangxinxin.wang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 2d30d5a5e8..852746eb2a 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ v6.7.0 (unreleased)
     the ``device_model_args`` setting in xl.cfg(5). The libvirt xen driver now
     supports this using ``<xen:commandline/>`` XML extensions.
 
+  * shmem: Add support for shmem-{plain, doorbell} ``role`` option
+
+    The ``role`` attribute controls how the domain behaves on migration. With
+    ``role=master``, the guest will copy the shared memory on migration to
+    the destination host. With ``role=peer``, the migration is disabled.
 
 * **Improvements**