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auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=libvir-list-bounces@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-ZohoMail-DKIM: pass (identity @redhat.com) (identity @redhat.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik --- docs/formatdomain.rst | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) This is a tiny follow-up improvement resulting from [1] as I felt the parag= raph wasn't clear enough + there were a couple of typographical issues. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2020-September/msg00329.html diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.rst b/docs/formatdomain.rst index 1979dfb8d3..cf3ccbecc5 100644 --- a/docs/formatdomain.rst +++ b/docs/formatdomain.rst @@ -5784,13 +5784,16 @@ A video device. value "vga", "cirrus", "vmvga", "xen", "vbox", "qxl" ( :since:`since 0.= 8.6` ), "virtio" ( :since:`since 1.3.0` ), "gop" ( :since:`since 3.2.0` ), "= bochs" ( :since:`since 5.6.0` ), "ramfb" ( :since:`since 5.9.0` ), or "none" ( - :since:`since 4.6.0` , depending on the hypervisor features available. = The - purpose of the type ``none`` is to instruct libvirt not to add a default - video device in the guest (see the paragraph above). This legacy behavi= our - can be inconvenient in cases where GPU mediated devices are meant to be= the - only rendering device within a guest and so specifying another ``video`` - device along with type ``none``. Refer to Host device assignment to see= how - to add a mediated device into a guest. + :since:`since 4.6.0`) , depending on the hypervisor features available. + + Note: The purpose of the type ``none`` is to instruct libvirt not to ad= d a + default video device in the guest (see the ``video`` element description + above), since such behaviour is inconvenient in cases where GPU mediated + devices are meant to be the only rendering device within a guest. If th= is + is your use case specify a ``none`` type ``video`` device in the XML to= stop + the default behaviour. Refer to `Host device assignment + <#host-device-assignment>`__ to see how to add a mediated device into a + guest. You can provide the amount of video memory in kibibytes (blocks of 1024 bytes) using ``vram``. This is supported only for guest type of "vz", "= qemu", -- 2.26.2