VIOCON(4) - Device Drivers Manual

VIOCON(4) - Device Drivers Manual #

VIOCON(4) - Device Drivers Manual

NAME #

viocon - VirtIO console device

SYNOPSIS #

viocon* at virtio?

DESCRIPTION #

The viocon driver provides support for the virtio(4) console interface provided by KVM, QEMU, and others.

It provides serial ports that are attached as ttys. Use as a kernel console for OpenBSD is not yet supported. The multiport feature is not yet supported.

FILES #

/dev/ttyVI00

/dev/ttyVI10

/dev/ttyVI20

/dev/ttyVI30

/dev/ttyVI40

SEE ALSO #

intro(4), tty(4), virtio(4)

HISTORY #

The viocon driver first appeared in OpenBSD 5.9.

AUTHORS #

The viocon driver was written by Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>.

OpenBSD 7.5 - June 21, 2017