NAME
vds —
virtual disk server
SYNOPSIS
vds* at cbus?
vdsp* at vds?
DESCRIPTION
The vds driver provides a virtual disk
server using the services provided by the UltraSPARC Hypervisor as found on
sun4v systems. It provides the backing storage for virtual disks in other
logical domains through a logical domain channel provided by the UltraSPARC
Hypervisor. The vds driver uses disk images in the
form of regular files. The name of the file used for the disk image is taken
from the domain's machine description.
The vds driver supports version 1.0 and
version 1.1 of the vDisk protocol.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The vds driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 4.7.
AUTHORS
The vds driver was written by
Mark Kettenis
<kettenis@openbsd.org>.