Re: [PATCH] docs: mention bhyve SATA address changes in news.xml

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On Sun, 2017-02-05 at 16:52 +0400, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:
[...]
> +      <change>
> +	<summary>
> +          bhyve: change address allocation schema for SATA disks
> +	</summary>

The indentation is all wrong, here and below. Please indent
using only spaces and make sure the result matches existing
entries; be also mindful of line length.

> +	<description>
> +	  Previously, the bhyve driver assigned PCI addresses to SATA disks directly
> +	  rather than assigning that to a controller and using SATA addresses for disks.
> +          It was implemented this way because bhyve has no notion of an explicit SATA
> +	  controller.

Aside: does this mean there is an implicit, default SATA
controller? How would that work otherwise?

> However, this doesn't go inline with the internal libvirt model,

"However, as this doesn't match libvirt's understanding of
disk addresses, [...]" or something along those lines.

> +          it was changed for the bhyve driver to follow the common schema and
> +	  have PCI addresses for SATA controllers and SATA addresses for disks. If you're having
> +	  issues because of this, it's recommended to edit the domain's XML and remove
> +	  &lt;address type='xml'&gt; from the &lt;disk&gt; elements with

s/xml/pci/ here, I assume.

> +	  &lt;target bus="sata"/&gt; and let libvirt regenerate it properly.

s/"/'/g to match the above and what libvirt actually uses ;)

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