NAME
virtio —
VirtIO support driver
SYNOPSIS
virtio* at pci?
DESCRIPTION
The virtio driver provides support service
for paravirtualized devices using the VirtIO protocol. Such devices are
provided by bhyve, KVM, QEMU, and VirtualBox.
Currently there are drivers for the following
virtio devices:
- vio(4)
- VirtIO network device
- vioblk(4)
- VirtIO disk
- viomb(4)
- VirtIO memory ballooning driver
- viornd(4)
- VirtIO random number device
- vioscsi(4)
- VirtIO SCSI adapter
The virtio driver conforms to the virtio
0.9.5 specification. The virtio 1.0 standard is not supported, yet.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The virtio driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 5.3.
AUTHORS
The virtio driver was ported to
OpenBSD and improved by Stefan
Fritsch
<sf@sfritsch.de>. It is
based on the NetBSD driver by
Minoura Makoto.