1.\" $NetBSD: nvmm.4,v 1.6 2020/09/05 07:22:25 maxv Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 2018-2020 Maxime Villard, m00nbsd.net 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is part of the NVMM hypervisor. 7.\" 8.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 9.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 10.\" are met: 11.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 13.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 15.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 16.\" 17.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 19.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 20.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 21.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, 22.\" BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; 23.\" LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED 24.\" AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, 25.\" OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 26.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 27.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 28.\" 29.Dd February 9, 2020 30.Dt NVMM 4 31.Os 32.Sh NAME 33.Nm nvmm 34.Nd NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor 35.Sh DESCRIPTION 36The 37.Nm 38driver provides kernel support for hardware-accelerated virtualization. 39It is made of a generic MI frontend, to which MD backends can be plugged 40to implement the core virtualization. 41.Pp 42In practice, 43.Nm 44is used by the 45.Xr libnvmm 3 46API to implement hypervisors. 47.Sh SUPPORT 48The following backends are supported: 49.Bl -hyphen -compact -offset indent 50.It 51x86-SVM, for x86 AMD CPUs 52.It 53x86-VMX, for x86 Intel CPUs 54.El 55.Sh SEE ALSO 56.Xr libnvmm 3 , 57.Xr nvmmctl 8 58.Sh AUTHORS 59The 60.Nm 61driver was written by 62.An Maxime Villard . 63