NAME

vmmci — VMM control interface

SYNOPSIS

vmmci* at virtio?

DESCRIPTION

The vmmci driver provides a control interface for virtual machines running inside OpenBSD vmm(4) (virtual machine monitor) hosts.

The driver handles shutdown and reboot requests from the vmm(4) host by signalling init(8) with SIGUSR2 and SIGINT respectively.

SEE ALSO

pvbus(4), vmm(4), init(8), vmd(8)

HISTORY

The vmmci driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.1.

AUTHORS

The vmmci driver was written by Reyk Floeter <reyk@openbsd.org>.