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17.Dd $Mdocdate: August 25 2014 $
18.Dt VMWPVS 4
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm vmwpvs
22.Nd VMware Paravirtual SCSI
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "vmwpvs* at pci?"
25.Sh DESCRIPTION
26The
27.Nm
28driver provides support for storage controllers using the
29Paravirtual SCSI interface a VMware hypervisor can provide to its guests.
30.Sh EXAMPLES
31The following entry must be added to the VMware configuration file
32to provide the
33.Nm
34device:
35.Bd -literal -offset indent
36scsi0.virtualDev = "pvscsi"
37.Ed
38.Sh SEE ALSO
39.Xr intro 4 ,
40.Xr pci 4 ,
41.Xr scsi 4
42.Sh HISTORY
43The
44.Nm
45driver first appeared in
46.Ox 5.5 .
47.Sh AUTHORS
48.An -nosplit
49The
50.Nm
51driver was written by
52.An David Gwynne .
53