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				.\" $FreeBSD$
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				.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, add this line to
				.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/EPT or AMD CPU with SVM support is required.
				.Pp
				PCI device passthrough to a virtual machine requires
				hardware with 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