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18.Dd August 13, 2022
19.Dt VIOCON 4
20.Os
21.Sh NAME
22.Nm viocon
23.Nd VirtIO console device
24.Sh SYNOPSIS
25.Cd "viocon* at virtio?"
26.Sh DESCRIPTION
27The
28.Nm
29driver provides support for the
30.Xr virtio 4
31console interface provided by KVM, QEMU, and others.
32.Pp
33It provides serial ports that are attached as ttys.
34.Sh FILES
35.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
36.It Pa /dev/ttyVI00
37.It Pa /dev/ttyVI10
38.It Pa /dev/ttyVI20
39.It Pa /dev/ttyVI30
40.It Pa /dev/ttyVI40
41.El
42.Sh SEE ALSO
43.Xr intro 4 ,
44.Xr tty 4 ,
45.Xr virtio 4
46.Sh HISTORY
47The
48.Nm
49driver first appeared in
50.Ox 5.9 .
51.Sh AUTHORS
52.An -nosplit
53The
54.Nm
55driver was written for
56.Ox
57by
58.An Stefan Fritsch Aq Mt sf@sfritsch.de .
59It was ported to
60.Nx 10.0 .
61.Sh BUGS
62Use as a kernel console for
63.Nx
64is not yet supported.
65.Pp
66The multiport feature is not yet supported.
67