From 82c2196840bd954294d854cf89310835462a3205 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Krempa Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 09:29:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: Mention conversion of '-device' to JSON starting with QEMU-6.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Normally this would be considered an internal detail which we don't document in the news, but in this case I'd like to make people aware of the change so that they preferrably report them ASAP. Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko --- NEWS.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 2c51628278..f3b9e5f0cb 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -42,6 +42,13 @@ v7.9.0 (unreleased) * **Improvements** + * Use of JSON syntax with ``-device`` with upcoming QEMU-6.2 + + Libvirt started using JSON directly with the ``-device`` commandline + parameter as it's considered the preferred stable syntax for further QEMU + releases. If any problems with the conversion are encoutered please + report them as soon as possible. + * **Bug fixes** * qemu: Fix problems on ``virsh domstats`` with qemu <5.2.0 -- 2.47.2