VIRTIO(4) - Device Drivers Manual #
VIRTIO(4) - Device Drivers Manual
NAME #
virtio - VirtIO support driver
SYNOPSIS #
virtio* at fdt? virtio* at pci? flags 0x00
DESCRIPTION #
The virtio driver provides support service for paravirtualized devices using the VirtIO protocol. Such devices are provided by bhyve, KVM, QEMU, VirtualBox, and vmm(4).
Currently there are drivers for the following virtio devices:
vio(4)
VirtIO network device
vioblk(4)
VirtIO disk
viocon(4)
VirtIO console device
viogpu(4)
VirtIO GPU device
viomb(4)
VirtIO memory ballooning driver
viornd(4)
VirtIO random number device
vioscsi(4)
VirtIO SCSI adapter
vmmci(4)
vmm(4) control interface
The virtio driver conforms to the virtio 0.9.5 specification. The virtio 1.0 standard is only supported for PCI devices.
By default 0.9 is preferred over 1.0. This can be changed by setting the bit 0x4 in the flags. Setting the bit 0x8 in the flags disables 1.0 support completely.
SEE ALSO #
HISTORY #
The virtio driver first appeared in OpenBSD 5.3.
AUTHORS #
The virtio driver was ported to OpenBSD and improved by Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>. It is based on the NetBSD driver by Minoura Makoto.
BUGS #
virtio big-endian architectures are not yet supported.
OpenBSD 7.5 - April 26, 2023