NEWS: Document Hyper-V virttype for Qemu Domains

[PATCH] NEWS: Document Hyper-V virttype for Qemu Domains

Posted by Praveen K Paladugu 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Signed-off-by: Praveen K Paladugu <prapal@linux.microsoft.com>
---
 NEWS.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index e2d382d5f8..277ca41493 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ v11.10.0 (unreleased)
 
 * **New features**
 
+  * Introduce Hyper-V virttype support for Qemu domains
+
+    Libvirt now supports Hyper-V virttype while lauching QEMU domains. This
+    feature requires Qemu version 10.2.0 or later and is available on Linux
+    hosts where the /dev/mshv is present.
+
 * **Improvements**
 
   * bhyve: VNC ``wait`` attribute support
-- 
2.51.0

Re: [PATCH] NEWS: Document Hyper-V virttype for Qemu Domains

Posted by Martin Kletzander via Devel 2 weeks, 2 days ago

On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 07:11:32PM -0600, Praveen K Paladugu wrote:
>Signed-off-by: Praveen K Paladugu <prapal@linux.microsoft.com>
>---
> NEWS.rst | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
>index e2d382d5f8..277ca41493 100644
>--- a/NEWS.rst
>+++ b/NEWS.rst
>@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ v11.10.0 (unreleased)
>
> * **New features**
>
>+  * Introduce Hyper-V virttype support for Qemu domains
>+

I know we have items like this in this file, but release notes read
better when it sounds like what happened and not what a patch is trying
to do.  I just removed the "Introduce " from the start, hope that's
fine.

Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>

and pushed.  Thanks!

>+    Libvirt now supports Hyper-V virttype while lauching QEMU domains. This
>+    feature requires Qemu version 10.2.0 or later and is available on Linux
>+    hosts where the /dev/mshv is present.
>+
> * **Improvements**
>
>   * bhyve: VNC ``wait`` attribute support
>-- 
>2.51.0
>