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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 10.99 August 13, 2022 NetBSD 10.99
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