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

* 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 &lt;source network='default'/&gt; &lt;target dev='vnet1'/&gt; &lt;model type='virtio'/&gt; - <b>&lt;driver txmode='iothread'/&gt;</b> + <b>&lt;driver name='vhost' txmode='iothread'/&gt;</b> &lt;/interface&gt; &lt;/devices&gt; ...</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