From 008047911e7b23054727d1f1e7e285e131d57c5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rodrigc Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 11:41:26 +0000 Subject: Mention virtio support. --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'release') diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml index 2b8bb3e..31fd741 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml @@ -125,6 +125,14 @@ support. These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond (e.g. Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs. + &man.virtio.4; support has been added. &man.virtio.4; is the + name for the paravirtualization interface developed for the Linux KVM, but + since adopted to other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception of Xen). + This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room implementation of the virtio kernel drivers + for disk IO (&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO (&man.vtnet.4;), + memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;), and PCI. + Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and &man.bhyve.4;. + The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB. -- cgit v1.1