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Added mshv to the list of accelerators in doc text.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Kulke <magnuskulke@linux.microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250916164847.77883-27-magnuskulke@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Magnus Kulke 2025-09-16 18:48:46 +02:00 • committed by Paolo Bonzini
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docs/about/build-platforms.rst
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@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ 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

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docs/devel/codebase.rst
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@ -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>`_:

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docs/glossary.rst
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@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Accelerator
A specific API used to accelerate execution of guest instructions. It can be
hardware-based, through a virtualization API provided by the host OS (kvm, hvf,
whpx, ...), or software-based (tcg). See this description of `supported
whpx, mshv, ...), or software-based (tcg). See this description of `supported
accelerators<Accelerators>`.
Board
@ -101,9 +101,8 @@ manage a virtual machine. QEMU is a virtualizer, that interacts with various
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.
allowing to execute virtual machines. Linux provides a choice of KVM, Xen
or MSHV; MacOS provides HVF; Windows provides WHPX; NetBSD provides NVMM.
.. _machine:

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docs/system/introduction.rst
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@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Tiny Code Generator (TCG) capable of emulating many CPUs.
* - Xen
- Linux (as dom0)
- Arm, x86
* - MSHV
- Linux (as dom0)
- x86
* - Hypervisor Framework (hvf)
- MacOS
- x86 (64 bit only), Arm (64 bit only)

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qemu-options.hx
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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ DEF("machine", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_machine, \
"-machine [type=]name[,prop[=value][,...]]\n"
" selects emulated machine ('-machine help' for list)\n"
" property accel=accel1[:accel2[:...]] selects accelerator\n"
" supported accelerators are kvm, xen, hvf, nvmm, whpx or tcg (default: tcg)\n"
" supported accelerators are kvm, xen, hvf, nvmm, whpx, mshv or tcg (default: tcg)\n"
" vmport=on|off|auto controls emulation of vmport (default: auto)\n"
" dump-guest-core=on|off include guest memory in a core dump (default=on)\n"
" mem-merge=on|off controls memory merge support (default: on)\n"
@ -66,10 +66,10 @@ SRST
``accel=accels1[:accels2[:...]]``
This is used to enable an accelerator. Depending on the target
architecture, kvm, xen, hvf, nvmm, whpx or tcg can be available.
By default, tcg is used. If there is more than one accelerator
specified, the next one is used if the previous one fails to
initialize.
architecture, kvm, xen, hvf, nvmm, whpx, mshv or tcg can be
available. By default, tcg is used. If there is more than one
accelerator specified, the next one is used if the previous one
fails to initialize.
``vmport=on|off|auto``
Enables emulation of VMWare IO port, for vmmouse etc. auto says
@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ ERST
DEF("accel", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_accel,
"-accel [accel=]accelerator[,prop[=value][,...]]\n"
" select accelerator (kvm, xen, hvf, nvmm, whpx or tcg; use 'help' for a list)\n"
" select accelerator (kvm, xen, hvf, nvmm, whpx, mshv or tcg; use 'help' for a list)\n"
" igd-passthru=on|off (enable Xen integrated Intel graphics passthrough, default=off)\n"
" kernel-irqchip=on|off|split controls accelerated irqchip support (default=on)\n"
" kvm-shadow-mem=size of KVM shadow MMU in bytes\n"
@ -241,8 +241,8 @@ DEF("accel", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_accel,
SRST
``-accel name[,prop=value[,...]]``
This is used to enable an accelerator. Depending on the target
architecture, kvm, xen, hvf, nvmm, whpx or tcg can be available. By
default, tcg is used. If there is more than one accelerator
architecture, kvm, xen, hvf, nvmm, whpx, mshv or tcg can be available.
By default, tcg is used. If there is more than one accelerator
specified, the next one is used if the previous one fails to
initialize.