[libvirt] [PATCH 4/4] NEWS: Document notify VM exit feature

Lin Ma lma at suse.com
Sun Jun 11 13:43:34 UTC 2023


From: Lin Ma <lma at suse.de>

Signed-off-by: Lin Ma <lma at suse.de>
---
 NEWS.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index b1cccee4fa..843578d183 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ v9.5.0 (unreleased)
 
 * **New features**
 
+    * Introduce notify vmexit feature(x86 only)
+
+    To mitigate the threat that CPU stuck caused by malicious VMs, A VMM can
+    enable notification VM exits to occur if no interrupt windows occur in
+    VMX non-root operation for a specified amount of time (notify window).
+    Libvirt is now able to configure this feature by setting the notify-vmexit
+    for KVM domains.
+
 * **Improvements**
 
 * **Bug fixes**
-- 
2.40.1



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