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.\" $NetBSD: vioif.4,v 1.1 2011/11/26 15:04:45 minoura Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: vioif.4,v 1.2 2011/11/26 22:36:14 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (C) 2011 Minoura Makoto.
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd
.Dd November 26, 2011
.Dt VIOIF 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -34,15 +34,15 @@
.Cd "virtio* at pci? dev ? function ?"
.Cd "vioif* at virtio?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
VirtIO
defines an interface for efficient, standard and extensible I/O between the
.Xr virtio 4
defines an interface for efficient, standard, and extensible I/O between the
hypervisor and the virtual machine.
The
.Nm
driver supports virtio-compliant virtual network interface cards.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr netintro 4 ,
.Xr virtio 4 ,
.Xr netinto 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Rs
.%A Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation

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.\" $NetBSD: viomb.4,v 1.1 2011/11/26 15:04:45 minoura Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: viomb.4,v 1.2 2011/11/26 22:36:14 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (C) 2011 Minoura Makoto.
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd
.Dd November 26, 2011
.Dt VIOMB 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -34,8 +34,10 @@
.Cd "virtio* at pci? dev ? function ?"
.Cd "viomb* at virtio?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
VirtIO defines an interface for efficient, standard and extensible I/O between
the hypervisor and the virtual machine. The
.Xr virtio 4
defines an interface for efficient, standard, and extensible I/O between
the hypervisor and the virtual machine.
The
.Nm
driver supports the virtio-compliant memory ballooning device.
.Pp
@ -60,9 +62,11 @@ device tells the hypervisor the guest physical memory address of the
allocated memory via VirtIO memory ballooning device.
.El
.Pp
The sysctl node hw.viomb.npages shows the requested number of memory pages
to return to the hypervisor, while hw.viomb.actual shows the actual
number of memory pages that is already returned to the hypervisor.
The sysctl node
.Li hw.viomb.npages
shows the requested number of memory pages to return to the hypervisor, while
.Li hw.viomb.actual
shows the actual number of memory pages that are already returned to the hypervisor.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr virtio 4 ,
.Xr sysctl 8
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.Nm
device driver appeared in
.Nx 6.0 .
.Sh BUG
.Sh BUGS
The userland interface should be same as the Xen ballooning device.

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.\" $NetBSD: virtio.4,v 1.3 2011/11/26 15:04:45 minoura Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: virtio.4,v 1.4 2011/11/26 22:36:14 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2011 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
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driver itself provides the core infrastructure to communicate
with the hypervisor (called virtqueues) and supports the following devices:
.Bl -tag -width xxxxx
.It Nm ld
.It Xr ld 4
A Disk device.
.It Nm vioif
.It Xr vioif 4
An Ethernet device.
.It Nm viomb
.It Xr viomb 4
A pseudo-device to release memory back to the hypervisor.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr pci 4 ,
.Xr viomb 4 ,
.Xr ld 4 ,
.Xr vioif 4
.Xr pci 4 ,
.Xr vioif 4 ,
.Xr viomb 4
.Pp
.Rs
.%A Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation