Re: [PATCH v4 26/27] docs: Add mshv to documentation

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 06:48:46PM +0200, Magnus Kulke wrote:
> Added mshv to the list of accelerators in doc text.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Magnus Kulke <magnuskulke@linux.microsoft.com>
> ---
>  docs/about/build-platforms.rst |  2 +-
>  docs/devel/codebase.rst        |  2 +-
>  docs/glossary.rst              |  6 +++---
>  docs/system/introduction.rst   |  3 +++
>  qemu-options.hx                | 16 ++++++++--------
>  5 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
> index 8671c3be9c..06ba0ddc9a 100644
> --- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
> +++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Those hosts are officially supported, with various accelerators:
>     * - SPARC
>       - tcg
>     * - x86
> -     - hvf (64 bit only), kvm, nvmm, tcg, whpx (64 bit only), xen
> +     - hvf (64 bit only), mshv (64 bit only), kvm, nvmm, tcg, whpx (64 bit only), xen
>  
>  Other host architectures are not supported. It is possible to build QEMU system
>  emulation on an unsupported host architecture using the configure
> diff --git a/docs/devel/codebase.rst b/docs/devel/codebase.rst
> index 2a3143787a..69d8827117 100644
> --- a/docs/devel/codebase.rst
> +++ b/docs/devel/codebase.rst
> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ yet, so sometimes the source code is all you have.
>  * `accel <https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/tree/master/accel>`_:
>    Infrastructure and architecture agnostic code related to the various
>    `accelerators <Accelerators>` supported by QEMU
> -  (TCG, KVM, hvf, whpx, xen, nvmm).
> +  (TCG, KVM, hvf, whpx, xen, nvmm, mshv).
>    Contains interfaces for operations that will be implemented per
>    `target <https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/tree/master/target>`_.
>  * `audio <https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/tree/master/audio>`_:
> diff --git a/docs/glossary.rst b/docs/glossary.rst
> index 4fa044bfb6..0fa75c9d1e 100644
> --- a/docs/glossary.rst
> +++ b/docs/glossary.rst

> @@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ hypervisors.
>  
>  In the context of QEMU, an hypervisor is an API, provided by the Host OS,
>  allowing to execute virtual machines. Linux implementation is KVM (and supports
> -Xen as well). For MacOS, it's HVF. Windows defines WHPX. And NetBSD provides
> -NVMM.
> +Xen and MSHV as well). For MacOS, it's HVF. Windows defines WHPX. And NetBSD
> +provides NVMM.

This is a bit of a bike-shed colouring comment, but how about saying

  "Linux provides a choice of KVM, Xen or MSHV; MacOS provides HVF;
   Windows provides WPHX; NetBSD provides NVMM."


With regards,
Daniel
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