viocon —
VirtIO console device
viocon* at virtio?
The
viocon driver provides support for the
virtio(4) console interface
provided by KVM, QEMU, and others.
It provides serial ports that are attached as ttys. Use as a kernel console for
OpenBSD is not yet supported. The multiport feature is
not yet supported.
- /dev/ttyVI00
-
- /dev/ttyVI10
-
- /dev/ttyVI20
-
- /dev/ttyVI30
-
- /dev/ttyVI40
-
intro(4),
tty(4),
virtio(4)
The
viocon driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 5.9.
The
viocon driver was written by
Stefan Fritsch
<
sf@sfritsch.de>.
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