Index: share/man/man4/vmm.4 =================================================================== --- /dev/null +++ share/man/man4/vmm.4 @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2013 Peter Grehan +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd December 19, 2013 +.Dt VMM 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm vmm.ko +.Nd "bhyve virtual machine monitor" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Pp +To load the driver as a module at boot time, place this line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +.Cd vmm_load="YES" +.Ed +.Pp +The module can also be loaded manually with +.Xr kldload 8 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +kldload vmm +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +provides the kernel portion of the +.Xr bhyve 4 +hypervisor. +.Pp +An Intel CPU with VT-x and EPT support is required. +.Pp +For PCI device passthrough to a virtual machine, the +hardware must also have VT-d support. +.Sh PCI PASSTHROUGH +When the hardware supports VT-d, and +.Nm +has been loaded at boot time, +PCI devices can be reserved for use by the hypervisor. +Entries consisting of the PCI +.Ar bus Ns / Ns Ar slot Ns / Ns Ar function +are added to the +.Va pptdevs +.Xr loader.conf 5 +variable. +Additional entries are separated by spaces. +Host PCI devices that match an entry will be assigned to the hypervisor +and will not be probed by +.Fx +device drivers. +See the +.Sx EXAMPLES +section below for sample usage. +.Pp +A large number of PCI device entries may require a string longer than the +128-character limit of +.Xr loader.conf 5 +variables. +The +.Va pptdevs2 +and +.Va pptdevs3 +variables can be used for additional entries. +.Sh EXAMPLES +Reserve three PCI devices for use by the hypervisor: bus 10 slot 0 function 0, +bus 6 slot 5 function 0, and bus 6 slot 5 function 1. +.Bd -literal -offset indent +pptdevs="10/0/0 6/5/0 6/5/1" +.Ed +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr bhyve 4 , +.Xr loader.conf 5 , +.Xr bhyve 8 , +.Xr bhyveload 8 , +.Xr kldload 8 +.Sh HISTORY +.Nm vmm.ko +first appeared in +.Fx 10.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An Neel Natu Aq neel@freebsd.org +.An Peter Grehan Aq grehan@freebsd.org + +