[libvirt] [PATCH] docs: document <driver name='vhost'/> for interfaces

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Wed Mar 9 13:48:44 UTC 2011


On 03/08/2011 06:38 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> * docs/formatdomain.html.in: Document virtio backend selection.
> ---
> 
> How about I help out? :)
> 
>  docs/formatdomain.html.in |   14 +++++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
> index 0c7c965..8307a0d 100644
> --- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in
> +++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
> @@ -1388,7 +1388,7 @@ qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? /dev/null
>        <source network='default'/>
>        <target dev='vnet1'/>
>        <model type='virtio'/>
> -      <b><driver txmode='iothread'/></b>
> +      <b><driver name='vhost' txmode='iothread'/></b>
>      </interface>
>    </devices>
>    ...</pre>
> @@ -1401,6 +1401,18 @@ qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? /dev/null
>      </p>
> 
>      <dl>
> +      <dt><code>name</code></dt>
> +      <dd>
> +        The optional <code>name</code> attribute forces which type of
> +        backend driver to use. The value can be either 'qemu' (a
> +        user-space backend) or 'vhost' (a kernel backend, which
> +        requires the vhost module to be provided by the kernel); an
> +        attempt to require the vhost driver without kernel support
> +        will be rejected.  If this attribute is not present, then the
> +        domain defaults to 'vhost' if present, but silently falls back
> +        to 'qemu' without error.
> +        <span class="since">Since 0.8.8 (QEMU and KVM only)</span>
> +      </dd>
>        <dt><code>txmode</code></dt>
>        <dd>
>          The <code>txmode</code> attribute specifies how to handle

ACK

- Cole




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