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17.Dd $Mdocdate: January 13 2017 $
18.Dt VMMCI 4
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm vmmci
22.Nd VMM control interface
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "vmmci* at virtio?"
25.Sh DESCRIPTION
26The
27.Nm
28driver provides a control interface for virtual machines running inside
29.Ox
30.Xr vmm 4
31(virtual machine monitor)
32hosts.
33.Pp
34The driver handles shutdown and reboot requests from the
35.Xr vmm 4
36host by signalling
37.Xr init 8
38with
39.Dv SIGUSR2
40and
41.Dv SIGINT
42respectively.
43.Sh SEE ALSO
44.Xr pvbus 4 ,
45.Xr vmm 4 ,
46.Xr init 8 ,
47.Xr vmd 8
48.Sh HISTORY
49The
50.Nm
51driver first appeared in
52.Ox 6.1 .
53.Sh AUTHORS
54The
55.Nm
56driver was written by
57.An Reyk Floeter Aq Mt reyk@openbsd.org .
58