[PATCH] docs: bhyve: document autoport support

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 - Update the driver page with the information about using
   autport for VNC ports
 - Add a news entry
---
 docs/drvbhyve.html.in |  8 ++++++++
 docs/news.xml         | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

It's a freeze now, but I guess it won't hurt if I push the actual
feature ACKed before the freeze [1] along with this docs change.

If not, it's not a big deal to let it wait for the next release though.

PS I've been semi-afk for last couple of weeks, hence the delay,
sorry about that.

1: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2017-July/msg00704.html

diff --git a/docs/drvbhyve.html.in b/docs/drvbhyve.html.in
index f083db91c..0cc9f0aa0 100644
--- a/docs/drvbhyve.html.in
+++ b/docs/drvbhyve.html.in
@@ -381,6 +381,14 @@ will be used. Please refer to the
 manual page and the <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve";>bhyve wiki</a> for more details on using
 the <code>vgaconf</code> option.</p>
 
+<p><span class="since">Since 3.6.0</span>, it's possible to use <code>autoport</code>
+to let libvirt allocate VNC port automatically (instead of explicitly specifying
+it with the <code>port</code> attribute):</p>
+
+<pre>
+    &lt;graphics type='vnc' autoport='yes'&gt;
+</pre>
+
 <h3><a name="clockconfig">Clock configuration</a></h3>
 
 <p>Originally bhyve supported only localtime for RTC. Support for UTC time was introduced in
diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
index ea21cbc3e..e84dea9ad 100644
--- a/docs/news.xml
+++ b/docs/news.xml
@@ -61,6 +61,16 @@
           on separate PHBs (PCI Host Bridges).
         </description>
       </change>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          bhyve: Support autoport for VNC ports
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          It's no longer necessary to explicitly specify VNC port for the bhyve
+          guests. With the autoport feature it will be allocated automatically.
+          Please refer to the bhyve driver documentation for examples.
+        </description>
+      </change>
     </section>
     <section title="Improvements">
       <change>
-- 
2.13.1

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