[libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] news: Update for libvirt 6.0.0

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Mon Jan 13 11:53:07 UTC 2020


On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 12:44:21 +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com>
> ---
>  docs/news.xml | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 61 insertions(+)

[...]

> +      <change>
> +        <summary>
> +          qemu: Add NVMe support
> +        </summary>
> +        <description>
> +          NVMe disks present in the host can now be assigned to QEMU guests.

This is severely misleading. NVMe could be used before in at least two
different ways [1][2]. This one adds another way which is a combination of
those two. The driver is in userspace but the qemu block layer can be
used. This means that the frontend can be emulated and blockjobs are
possible but there's some performance benefit.

[1] device assignment: you get performance but can't migrate or use
blockjobs. Guest requires drivers.
[2] normal block device: kernel is involved thus has performance penalty
but there's more features and flexibility.

> +        </description>
> +      </change>
>      </section>
>      <section title="Removed features">
>        <change>




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