netbsd man page for virtio

Query: virtio

OS: netbsd

Section: 4

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VIRTIO(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						 VIRTIO(4)

NAME
virtio -- Para-virtualized I/O in a virtual machine
SYNOPSIS
virtio* at pci? dev ? function ? ld* at virtio? vioif* at virtio? viomb* at virtio?
DESCRIPTION
virtio defines an interface for efficient, standard and extensible I/O between the hypervisor and the virtual machine. The virtio device driver represents an emulated PCI device that the hypervisor makes available to the virtual machine. virtio driver itself provides the core infrastructure to communicate with the hypervisor (called virtqueues) and supports the following devices: ld(4) A Disk device. vioif(4) An Ethernet device. viomb(4) A pseudo-device to release memory back to the hypervisor.
SEE ALSO
ld(4), pci(4), vioif(4), viomb(4) Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation, Virtio PCI Card Specification, http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/.
HISTORY
The virtio driver first appeared in NetBSD 6.0.
BSD
November 5, 2011 BSD
Related Man Pages
modules-load.d(5) - centos
virtio(4) - netbsd
if_vtnet(4) - freebsd
virtio(4) - freebsd
modules-load.d(5) - mojave
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