news: document bhyve new features for 12.0.0

[PATCH] news: document bhyve new features for 12.0.0

Posted by Roman Bogorodskiy 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Signed-off-by: Roman Bogorodskiy <bogorodskiy@gmail.com>
---
 NEWS.rst | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 6ca49a4c1b..6f9d1d2b34 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
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Re: [PATCH] news: document bhyve new features for 12.0.0

Posted by Andrea Bolognani via Devel 2 weeks, 6 days ago

On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 06:50:53PM +0100, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:
> +++ 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.

Very exciting release for FreeBSD users! :)

Please indent the XML snippet with two spaces instead of one. With
that changed

  Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>

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