Tomcat 10 and virtual thread

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Hello everyone,

Looking at https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-10.1-doc/config/executor.html we can configure Tomcat 10.1.x to use virtual threads
instead of platform threads. Do you confirm ?

The way to do it, as far as I understood, is to:

  *   first, declare an executor in server.xml like below
<Executor name="virtualThread"
                                      className="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardVirtualThreadExecutor" />

  *   second, use a connector which will refer this above Executor thanks to its name attribute.
The way I do it, is to update line 74, in server.xml, from <Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" to
                                                                                                                         <Connector executor="virtualThread" port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"

I started Tomcat and triggered a thread dump.
I was not able to see any tomcat-virt string.
Does it mean that the virtual thread usage is still disabled ?

What's wrong with my configuration ?

Best Regards.