NAME
hyperv —
Hyper-V guest nexus device
SYNOPSIS
hyperv0 at pvbus?
DESCRIPTION
hyperv driver performs Synthetic Interrupt
Controller initialization, sets up hypercalls, and provides access to VMBus
services required by paravirtualized devices such as disk and network
interfaces.
An access is also provided to the Key-Value Pair exchange interface via pvbus(4). All keys are associated to one of several key pools: Auto, Guest, External or Guest/Parameters. It's possible to modify values of keys in the Auto pool as well as set new keys in the Guest pool with hostctl(8). The Host provides its read-only keys in External and Guest/Parameters pools.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The hyperv driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 6.1.
AUTHORS
The hyperv driver was written by
Mike Belopuhov
<mikeb@openbsd.org>
based on the FreeBSD driver by the Microsoft BSD
Integration Services Team
<bsdic@microsoft.com>.
CAVEATS
Generation 2 Virtual Machines are currently not supported.