1.\" $NetBSD: nvmm.4,v 1.4.4.1 2020/02/10 19:05:05 martin Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 2018-2020 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation 7.\" by Maxime Villard. 8.\" 9.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 10.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 11.\" are met: 12.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 14.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 15.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 16.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS 19.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED 20.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 21.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS 22.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 23.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 24.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 25.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 26.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 27.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 28.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.Dd May 10, 2021 31.Dt NVMM 4 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm nvmm 35.Nd NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor 36.Sh DESCRIPTION 37The 38.Nm 39driver provides kernel support for hardware-accelerated virtualization. 40It is made of a generic MI frontend, to which MD backends can be plugged 41to implement the core virtualization. 42.Pp 43In practice, 44.Nm 45is used by the 46.Xr libnvmm 3 47API to implement hypervisors. 48.Sh SUPPORT 49The following backends are supported: 50.Bl -hyphen -compact -offset indent 51.It 52x86-SVM, for x86 AMD CPUs 53.It 54x86-VMX, for x86 Intel CPUs 55.El 56.Sh SEE ALSO 57.Xr libnvmm 3 , 58.Xr nvmmctl 8 59.Sh AUTHORS 60The 61.Nm 62driver was written by 63.An Maxime Villard . 64.Sh HISTORY 65.Nm 66first appeared in 67.Nx 689, 69and was ported to 70.Dx 716.1. 72