[PATCH v2 6/6] NEWS: Mention the qemu device property override feature

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Tue Mar 22 11:27:25 UTC 2022


Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>
---
 NEWS.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index b9b9807625..754687ac4d 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ v8.2.0 (unreleased)
     migration allowing migration to proceed even when the user expects certificate
     name not to match.

+  * qemu: Allow overrides of device properties via the qemu namespace
+
+    Users wishing to override or modify properties of devices configured by
+    libvirt can use the ``<qemu:deviceOverride>`` QEMU namespace element to
+    specify the overrides instead of relying on the argv passthrough of the
+    ``-set`` qemu commandline option which no longer works with new qemu.
+
 * **Bug fixes**

   * Both build and tests should now pass on Alpine Linux or any other
-- 
2.35.1



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