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author | gjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-03-13 05:11:56 +0000 |
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committer | gjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-03-13 05:11:56 +0000 |
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Add hyperv manual pages provided by Microsoft, formatted
for FreeBSD standards. Very little, if any, content was
modified.
These are not yet linked to the build.
Submitted by: Abhishek Gupta (abgupta!microsoft dot com)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
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diff --git a/share/man/man8/hv_kvp_daemon.8 b/share/man/man8/hv_kvp_daemon.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a717153 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man8/hv_kvp_daemon.8 @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2012 Microsoft Corp. +.\" 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. +.\" +.Dd September 10, 2013 +.Dt HYPER-V 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm hv_kvp_daemon +.Nd Hyper-V Key Value Pair Daemon +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in +the system kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device hyperv" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +daemon provides the ability to store, retrieve, modify and delete +Key Value pairs for +.Fx +guest partitions running on Hyper-V. +Hyper-V allows administrators to store custom metadata in the form +of Key Value pairs inside the +.Fx +guest partition. +Administrators can use Windows Powershell scripts to add, read, modify +and delete such Key Value pairs. +.Pp +The +.Nm +accepts Key Value pair management requests from the +.Xr hv_kvp 4 +driver and performs the actual metadata management on the file-system. +.Pp +The same daemon and driver combination is also used to set and get +IP addresses from a +.Fx +guest. +.Pp +The set functionality is particularly +useful when the +.Fx +guest is assigned a static IP address and is failed +over from one Hyper-V host to another. +After failover, Hyper-V uses the set IP functionality to automatically +update the +.Fx +guest's IP address to its original static value. +.Pp +On the other hand, the get IP functionality is used to update the guest IP +address in the Hyper-V management console window. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr hv_vmbus 4 , +.Xr hv_utils 4 , +.Xr hv_netvsc 4 , +.Xr hv_storvsc 4 , +.Xr hv_ata_pci_disengage 4 , +.Xr hv_kvp 4 +.Sh HISTORY +Support for +.Nm +first appeared in +.Fx 10.0 . +The daemon was developed through a joint effort between Citrix Incorporated, +Microsoft Corporation, and Network Appliance Incorporated. +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +.Fx +support for +.Nm +was first added by +.An Microsoft BSD Integration Services Team Aq bsdic@microsoft.com . |