| VIRTIO(4) | Device Drivers Manual | VIRTIO(4) |
virtio —
virtio* at fdt?
virtio* at pci? dev ? function ?
ld* at virtio?
vioif* at virtio?
viomb* at virtio?
viornd* at virtio?
vioscsi* at virtio?
virtio defines an interface for efficient, standard and
extensible I/O between the hypervisor and the virtual machine. The
virtio device driver represents an emulated device
that the hypervisor makes available to the virtual machine.
virtio driver itself provides the core
infrastructure to communicate with the hypervisor (called virtqueues) and
supports the following devices:
Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation, Virtio PCI Card Specification, http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/.
virtio driver first appeared in
NetBSD 6.0.
| June 7, 2018 | NetBSD 10.0 |