Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@xxxxxxxxxx> --- docs/formatdomain.rst | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) This is a tiny follow-up improvement resulting from [1] as I felt the paragraph wasn't clear enough + there were a couple of typographical issues. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2020-September/msg00329.html diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.rst b/docs/formatdomain.rst index 1979dfb8d3..cf3ccbecc5 100644 --- a/docs/formatdomain.rst +++ b/docs/formatdomain.rst @@ -5784,13 +5784,16 @@ A video device. value "vga", "cirrus", "vmvga", "xen", "vbox", "qxl" ( :since:`since 0.8.6` ), "virtio" ( :since:`since 1.3.0` ), "gop" ( :since:`since 3.2.0` ), "bochs" ( :since:`since 5.6.0` ), "ramfb" ( :since:`since 5.9.0` ), or "none" ( - :since:`since 4.6.0` , depending on the hypervisor features available. The - purpose of the type ``none`` is to instruct libvirt not to add a default - video device in the guest (see the paragraph above). This legacy behaviour - can be inconvenient in cases where GPU mediated devices are meant to be the - only rendering device within a guest and so specifying another ``video`` - device along with type ``none``. Refer to Host device assignment to see how - to add a mediated device into a guest. + :since:`since 4.6.0`) , depending on the hypervisor features available. + + Note: The purpose of the type ``none`` is to instruct libvirt not to add a + default video device in the guest (see the ``video`` element description + above), since such behaviour is inconvenient in cases where GPU mediated + devices are meant to be the only rendering device within a guest. If this + is your use case specify a ``none`` type ``video`` device in the XML to stop + the default behaviour. Refer to `Host device assignment + <#host-device-assignment>`__ to see how to add a mediated device into a + guest. You can provide the amount of video memory in kibibytes (blocks of 1024 bytes) using ``vram``. This is supported only for guest type of "vz", "qemu", -- 2.26.2
