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authorbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2015-08-24 14:32:57 +0000
committerbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2015-08-24 14:32:57 +0000
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MFC: r286409
Manpage cleanup. - new sentence -> new line - fix manpage references - fix macro usage - fix a typo
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-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/bhyve/bhyve.835
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/bhyve/bhyve.8 b/usr.sbin/bhyve/bhyve.8
index 553ab09..37d1b86 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/bhyve/bhyve.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/bhyve/bhyve.8
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd September 17, 2014
+.Dd August 7, 2015
.Dt BHYVE 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Parameters such as the number of virtual CPUs, amount of guest memory, and
I/O connectivity can be specified with command-line parameters.
.Pp
The guest operating system must be loaded with
-.Xr bhyveload 4
+.Xr bhyveload 8
or a similar boot loader before running
.Nm .
.Pp
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ exit is detected.
.Bl -tag -width 10n
.It Fl a
The guest's local APIC is configured in xAPIC mode.
-The xAPIC mode is the default setting so this option is redundant. It will be
-deprecated in a future version.
+The xAPIC mode is the default setting so this option is redundant.
+It will be deprecated in a future version.
.It Fl A
Generate ACPI tables.
Required for
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Force the guest virtual CPU to exit when a PAUSE instruction is detected.
.It Fl s Ar slot,emulation Ns Op , Ns Ar conf
Configure a virtual PCI slot and function.
.Pp
-.Nm bhyve
+.Nm
provides PCI bus emulation and virtual devices that can be attached to
slots on the bus.
There are 32 available slots, with the option of providing up to 8 functions
@@ -134,11 +134,19 @@ per slot.
.Pp
The
.Ar pcislot
-value is 0 to 31. The optional function value is 0 to 7. The optional
+value is 0 to 31.
+The optional
+.Ar function
+value is 0 to 7.
+The optional
.Ar bus
value is 0 to 255.
-If not specified, the function value defaults to 0.
-If not specified, the bus value defaults to 0.
+If not specified, the
+.Ar function
+value defaults to 0.
+If not specified, the
+.Ar bus
+value defaults to 0.
.It Ar emulation
.Bl -tag -width 10n
.It Li hostbridge | Li amd_hostbridge
@@ -219,7 +227,9 @@ TTY devices:
.Bl -tag -width 10n
.It Li stdio
Connect the serial port to the standard input and output of
-the bhyve process.
+the
+.Nm
+process.
.It Pa /dev/xxx
Use the host TTY device for serial port I/O.
.El
@@ -249,7 +259,8 @@ in the guest's System Management BIOS System Information structure.
By default a UUID is generated from the host's hostname and
.Ar vmname .
.It Fl w
-Ignore accesses to unimplemented Model Specific Registers (MSRs). This is intended for debug purposes.
+Ignore accesses to unimplemented Model Specific Registers (MSRs).
+This is intended for debug purposes.
.It Fl W
Force virtio PCI device emulations to use MSI interrupts instead of MSI-X
interrupts.
@@ -264,7 +275,7 @@ This should be the same as that created by
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
The guest operating system must have been loaded with
-.Xr bhyveload 4
+.Xr bhyveload 8
or a similar boot loader before
.Xr bhyve 4
can be run.
@@ -292,7 +303,7 @@ Run an 8GB quad-CPU virtual machine with 8 AHCI SATA disks, an AHCI ATAPI
CD-ROM, a single virtio network port, an AMD hostbridge, and the console
port connected to an
.Xr nmdm 4
-null-model device.
+null-modem device.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
bhyve -c 4 \\
-s 0,amd_hostbridge -s 1,lpc \\
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