From 526f794b5462e255f69557cce66f229ef3a263a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laine Stump Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:02:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] news: include info about supporting vhostuser+passt combination MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Laine Stump Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko --- NEWS.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 4fc8a3bba0..7984f358f3 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -54,6 +54,14 @@ v11.1.0 (unreleased) The virtio-mem model of ```` device can now be used with s390 guests. + * Support using passt as the backend for interface type='vhostuser' + + The combination of vhostuser transport with passt as the backend + provides high performance, fully featured networking without the + need for libvirt or QEMU to have any elevated privileges or + capabilities. Configuration and features are identical to the + configuration for type='user' with the passt backend. + * **Improvements** * qemu: I/O error messages can be queried via ``virDomainGetMessages()``