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27.Dd November 5, 2011
28.Dt VIRTIO 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm virtio
32.Nd Para-virtualized I/O in a virtual machine
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd "virtio* at pci? dev ? function ?"
35.Cd "ld* at virtio?"
36.Cd "vioif* at virtio?"
37.Cd "viomb* at virtio?"
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39.Nm
40defines an interface for efficient, standard and extensible I/O between the
41hypervisor and the virtual machine.
42The
43.Nm
44device driver represents an emulated PCI device that the hypervisor makes
45available to the virtual machine.
46.Pp
47.Nm
48driver itself provides the core infrastructure to communicate
49with the hypervisor (called virtqueues) and supports the following devices:
50.Bl -tag -width xxxxx
51.It Xr ld 4
52A Disk device.
53.It Xr vioif 4
54An Ethernet device.
55.It Xr viomb 4
56A pseudo-device to release memory back to the hypervisor.
57.El
58.Sh SEE ALSO
59.Xr ld 4 ,
60.Xr pci 4 ,
61.Xr vioif 4 ,
62.Xr viomb 4
63.Pp
64.Rs
65.%A Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation
66.%T Virtio PCI Card Specification
67.%U http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/
68.Re
69.Sh HISTORY
70The
71.Nm
72driver first appeared in
73.Nx 6.0 .
74