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17.Dd $Mdocdate: December 31 2009 $
18.Dt VDS 4 sparc64
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm vds
22.Nd virtual disk server
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "vds* at cbus?"
25.Cd "vdsp* at vds?"
26.Sh DESCRIPTION
27The
28.Nm
29driver provides a virtual disk server using the services provided by
30the UltraSPARC Hypervisor as found on sun4v systems.
31It provides the backing storage for virtual disks in other logical
32domains through a logical domain channel provided by the UltraSPARC
33Hypervisor.
34The
35.Nm
36driver uses disk images in the form of regular files.
37The name of the file used for the disk image is taken from the
38domain's machine description.
39.Pp
40The
41.Nm
42driver supports version 1.0 of the vDisk protocol.
43.Sh SEE ALSO
44.Xr cbus 4 ,
45.Xr intro 4 ,
46.Xr vdsk 4
47.Sh HISTORY
48The
49.Nm
50driver first appeared in
51.Ox 4.7 .
52.Sh AUTHORS
53The
54.Nm
55driver was written by
56.An Mark Kettenis Aq kettenis@openbsd.org .
57