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17.Dd $Mdocdate: December 9 2015 $
18.Dt XEN 4
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm xen
22.Nd Xen domU nexus device
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "xen0 at pvbus?"
25.Sh DESCRIPTION
26.Nm
27driver performs HVM domU guest initialization, provides abstraction for
28virtual Xen interrupts, access to the XenStore configuration storage as
29well as a device probing facility for paravirtualized devices such as
30disk and network interfaces.
31.Sh SEE ALSO
32.Xr autoconf 4 ,
33.Xr intro 4 ,
34.Xr pvbus 4
35.Sh HISTORY
36The
37.Nm
38driver first appeared in
39.Ox 5.9 .
40.Sh AUTHORS
41The
42.Nm
43driver was written by
44.An Mike Belopuhov Aq Mt mikeb@openbsd.org
45from scratch, inspired by the
46.Fx
47implementation.
48