Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> --- NEWS.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 54f541cdbc..2bbdc52c03 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -17,6 +17,22 @@ v12.1.0 (unreleased) * **New features** + * qemu: Add support for uefi-vars device and firmware builds using it + + This is particularly noteworthy for people running aarch64 VMs, as it makes + it finally possible to use Secure Boot on the architecture. + + In most cases, no special steps are needed to take advantage of this: + assuming that you have installed a recent version of QEMU, as well as a + build of edk2 that includes the necessary binaries, you can just `enable + Secure Boot <kbase/secureboot.html>`__ as you normally would. + + To explicitly request that the uefi-vars device is used even for scenarios + where that would normally not be the case, it's enough to add an empty + ``<varstore/>`` element in the domain XML. More details are available in + the `guest firmware configuration <formatdomain.html#guest-firmware>`__ + section of the documentation. + * **Improvements** * **Bug fixes** -- 2.53.0