From 9fe35c7245f21b37300ade221685cbd2b5a4019b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gjb Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 01:43:03 +0000 Subject: MFC r263105, r263106: r263105: Add hyperv manual pages provided by Microsoft, formatted for FreeBSD standards. Very little, if any, content was modified. r263106: Connect the hyperv driver manuals to the build. Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation --- share/man/man4/hv_vmbus.4 | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 93 insertions(+) create mode 100644 share/man/man4/hv_vmbus.4 (limited to 'share/man/man4/hv_vmbus.4') diff --git a/share/man/man4/hv_vmbus.4 b/share/man/man4/hv_vmbus.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..873cb28e --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/hv_vmbus.4 @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.\" 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_vmbus +.Nd Hyper-V Virtual Machine Bus (VMBus) Driver +.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 +provides a high performance communication interface between +guest and root partitions in Hyper-V. +Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based virtualization technology from Microsoft. +Hyper-V supports isolation in terms of a partition. +A partition is a +logical unit of isolation, supported by the hypervisor, in which +operating systems execute. +.Pp +The Microsoft hypervisor must have at least one parent, or root, +partition, running Windows Server operating system. +The virtualization stack runs in the parent partition and has +direct access to the hardware devices. +The root partition then creates the child partitions which host +the guest operating systems. +.Pp +Child partitions do not have direct access to other hardware resources +and are presented +a virtual view of the resources, as virtual devices (VDevs). +Requests to the virtual devices are +redirected either via the VMBus or the hypervisor to the devices in +the parent partition, which handles the requests. +.Pp +The VMBus is a logical inter-partition communication channel. +The parent partition hosts Virtualization Service Providers (VSPs) +which communicate over the VMBus to handle device access requests from +child partitions. +Child partitions host Virtualization Service +Consumers (VSCs) which redirect device requests to VSPs in the parent +partition via the VMBus. +The Hyper-V VMBus driver defines and implements +the interface that facilitate high performance bi-directional communication +between the VSCs and VSPs. +All VSCs utilize the VMBus driver. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr hv_utils 4 , +.Xr hv_netvsc 4 , +.Xr hv_storvsc 4 , +.Xr hv_ata_pci_disengage 4 +.Sh HISTORY +Support for +.Nm +first appeared in +.Fx 10.0 . +The driver 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 . -- cgit v1.1