news: document auto-selection of VFIO variant drivers

Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
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Laine Stump 2024-01-14 18:01:34 -05:00 committed by Michal Privoznik
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``virDomainBlockResize`` allows resizing a block-device backed ``raw`` disk
of a VM without the need to specify the full size of the block device.
* qemu: automatic selection/binding of VFIO variant drivers
When a device is assigned to a guest using VFIO with ``<hostdev
managed='yes'>``, libvirt will now search the running kernel's
modules.alias file for the most specific match to that device for
a VFIO driver, and bind that driver to the device rather than
vfio-pci. A specific driver can also be forced, using the
``<driver model='plugh'/>`` attribute.
* **Improvements**
* qemu: Improve migration XML use when persisting VM on destination