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author | grehan <grehan@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-11-18 05:43:43 +0000 |
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committer | grehan <grehan@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-11-18 05:43:43 +0000 |
commit | 1a42b19ed0cb934631927da4b71fde34c8afdb34 (patch) | |
tree | 4d3e53fb89135e392dab5a548569b236b9ba213e /share/man/man4/virtio_blk.4 | |
parent | 7b8778fe5a226bee40cd88fc68926e898e9bd8f7 (diff) | |
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Import virtio base, PCI front-end, and net/block/balloon drivers.
Tested on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and BHyVe.
Currently built as modules-only on i386/amd64. Man pages not yet hooked
up, pending review.
Submitted by: Bryan Venteicher bryanv at daemoninthecloset dot org
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: 4 weeks or so
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/virtio_blk.4 b/share/man/man4/virtio_blk.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4250141 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/virtio_blk.4 @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Bryan Venteicher +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd July 4, 2011 +.Dt VIRTIO_BLK 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm virtio_blk +.Nd VirtIO Block driver +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following lines in your +kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device virtio_blk" +.Ed +.Pp +Alternatively, to load the driver as a +module at boot time, place the following line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +virtio_blk_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +device driver provides support for VirtIO block devices. +.Pp +.Sh LOADER TUNABLES +Tunables can be set at the +.Xr loader 8 +prompt before booting the kernel or stored in +.Xr loader.conf 5 . +.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx" +.It Va hw.vtblk.no_ident +This tunable disables retrieving the device identification string +from the hypervisor. The default value is 0. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr virtio 4 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Bryan Venteicher Aq bryanv@daemoninthecloset.org . +It first appeared in +.Fx 9.0 . |