XNF(4) - Device Drivers Manual #

XNF(4) - Device Drivers Manual

NAME #

xnf - Xen Netfront networking interface

SYNOPSIS #

xnf* at xen?

DESCRIPTION #

The xnf driver provides support for a paravirtual networking interface “Netfront” native to the Xen hypervisor.

During attach the xnf driver will ask the hypervisor to switch all configured virtual interfaces over to the Netfront interface regardless of the VM configuration.

SEE ALSO #

autoconf(4), intro(4), xen(4)

HISTORY #

The xnf driver first appeared in OpenBSD 5.9.

AUTHORS #

The xnf driver was written by Mike Belopuhov <mikeb@openbsd.org> from scratch, inspired by the FreeBSD implementation.

OpenBSD 7.5 - January 15, 2016