nvmm.4 revision 1.4 $NetBSD: nvmm.4,v 1.4 2019/03/28 19:00:40 maxv Exp $
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.Dd March 28, 2019 .Dt NVMM 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm nvmm .Nd NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm driver provides kernel support for hardware-accelerated virtualization. It is made of a generic MI frontend, to which MD backends can be plugged to implement the core virtualization.
Copyright (c) 2018 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
All rights reserved.
This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
by Maxime Villard.
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.Dd March 28, 2019 .Dt NVMM 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm nvmm .Nd NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm driver provides kernel support for hardware-accelerated virtualization. It is made of a generic MI frontend, to which MD backends can be plugged to implement the core virtualization.
p In practice, .Nm is used by the .Xr libnvmm 3 API to implement hypervisors. .Sh SUPPORT The following backends are supported: l -hyphen -compact -offset indent t x86-SVM, for x86 AMD CPUs t x86-VMX, for x86 Intel CPUs .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr libnvmm 3 .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm driver was written by .An Maxime Villard .
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