XBF(4) | Device Drivers Manual | XBF(4) |
xbf
— Xen Blkfront
virtual disk
xbf* at xen?
The xbf
driver provides support for a
paravirtual disk interface "Blkfront", native to the Xen
hypervisor.
During attach the xbf
driver will ask the
hypervisor to switch all configured virtual disks over to the Blkfront
interface regardless of the VM configuration.
The xbf
driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 6.1.
The xbf
driver was written by
Mike Belopuhov
<mikeb@openbsd.org>
based on the vdsk(4) driver by
Mark Kettenis
<kettenis@openbsd.org>,
inspired by the FreeBSD implementation.
December 7, 2016 | OpenBSD-current |