[libvirt] [PATCH v4 5/5] news.xml: add address type='unassigned' entry

Daniel Henrique Barboza danielhb413 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 16 13:36:07 UTC 2019


Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413 at gmail.com>
---
 docs/news.xml | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
index 2a25b6ca49..e77cd743c8 100644
--- a/docs/news.xml
+++ b/docs/news.xml
@@ -54,6 +54,25 @@
           written in the RST as an alternative to HTML.
         </description>
       </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          new PCI hostdev address type: unassigned
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          A new PCI hostdev address type 'unassigned' is introduced,
+          giving users the option to choose which PCI hostdevs
+          within the same IOMMU group will not be assigned to the
+          guest. After this change, all PCI hostdevs of the same IOMMU
+          must be declared in the domain XML. Hostdevs that shouldn't
+          be used by the guest can be classified as
+          <code>address type='unassigned'</code>. Forcing all IOMMU
+          hostdevs to be declared makes the user aware of what will
+          be detached from the host, and this new address type gives
+          the user an extra layer of access control of hardware
+          resources, denying guest access to PCI hostdevs that
+          it shouldn't have access to.
+        </description>
+      </change>
     </section>
     <section title="Improvements">
       <change>
-- 
2.23.0





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