Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 4/4] news: Update release news with mediated devices hot {plug, unplug}
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:57:16 +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet(a)redhat.com>
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docs/news.xml | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
index 108889574..6075cc9ca 100644
--- a/docs/news.xml
+++ b/docs/news.xml
@@ -92,6 +92,20 @@
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</description>
</change>
+ <change>
+ <summary>
+ qemu: Support hot plug and hot unplug with mediated devices
s/with/of/
+ </summary>
+ <description>
+ Libvirt now allows mediated devices to be hot plugged and hot
+ unplugged from a guest rather than reporting an error that this isn't
The end of the sentence is kind of obvious.
+ supported. In fact, this has been supported with mediated
devices
I'd say 'In fact, kernel supported this ...' so that it's obvious which
component you are speaking of.
+ since their first appearance in 4.10 kernel. Be ware
though that this
+ still doesn't guarantee any functionality with respect to the guest
+ driver which might not cope with a device being hot plugged or
+ unplugged.
As with any hotplug. The drivers in the guest can ignore the device, or
disallow unplug if it is not supported.
If you want to point out that drivers currently don't support it in some
cases, please be more direct.
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