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17.Dd $Mdocdate: January 21 2014 $
18.Dt VIRTIO 4
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm virtio
22.Nd VirtIO support driver
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "virtio* at pci?"
25.Sh DESCRIPTION
26The
27.Nm
28driver provides support service for paravirtualized devices using the VirtIO
29protocol.
30Such devices are provided by bhyve, KVM, QEMU, and VirtualBox.
31.Pp
32Currently there are drivers for the following
33.Nm
34devices:
35.Pp
36.Bl -tag -width "vioscsi(4)XXX" -offset indent -compact
37.It Xr vio 4
38VirtIO network device
39.It Xr vioblk 4
40VirtIO disk
41.It Xr viomb 4
42VirtIO memory ballooning driver
43.It Xr viornd 4
44VirtIO random number device
45.It Xr vioscsi 4
46VirtIO SCSI adapter
47.El
48.Sh SEE ALSO
49.Xr intro 4
50.Sh HISTORY
51The
52.Nm
53driver first appeared in
54.Ox 5.3 .
55.Sh AUTHORS
56.An -nosplit
57The
58.Nm
59driver was ported to
60.Ox
61and improved by
62.An Stefan Fritsch Aq Mt sf@sfritsch.de .
63It is based on the
64.Nx
65driver by
66.An Minoura Makoto .
67