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VIOCON(4)               NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual              VIOCON(4)


NAME

     viocon -- VirtIO console device


SYNOPSIS

     viocon* at virtio?


DESCRIPTION

     The viocon driver provides support for the virtio(4) console interface
     provided by KVM, QEMU, and others.

     It provides serial ports that are attached as ttys.


FILES

     /dev/ttyVI00
     /dev/ttyVI10
     /dev/ttyVI20
     /dev/ttyVI30
     /dev/ttyVI40


SEE ALSO

     intro(4), tty(4), virtio(4)


HISTORY

     The viocon driver first appeared in OpenBSD 5.9.


AUTHORS

     The viocon driver was written for OpenBSD by Stefan Fritsch
     <sf@sfritsch.de>.  It was ported to NetBSD 10.0.


BUGS

     Use as a kernel console for NetBSD is not yet supported.

     The multiport feature is not yet supported.

NetBSD 10.1                     August 13, 2022                    NetBSD 10.1