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31 .Nd Hyper-V Key Value Pair Daemon
38 daemon provides the ability to store, retrieve, modify and delete
41 guest partitions running on Hyper-V.
43 Hyper-V allows administrators to store custom metadata in the form
44 of Key Value pairs inside the
48 use Windows Powershell scripts to add, read, modify and delete such
53 accepts Key Value pair management requests from the
55 driver and performs the actual metadata management on the file-system.
57 The same daemon and driver combination is also used to set and get
62 The set functionality is particularly
65 guest is assigned a static IP address and is failed
66 over from one Hyper-V host to another.
67 After failover, Hyper-V uses the set IP
68 functionality to automatically
71 guest's IP address to its original static value.
73 On the other hand, the get IP functionality is used to update the guest IP
74 address in the Hyper-V management console window.
76 The options are as follows:
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79 Run as regular process instead of a daemon for debugging purpose.
81 Generate debugging output.
88 .Xr hv_ata_pci_disengage 4 ,
91 Support for Hyper-V in the form of ports was first released in September 2013.
92 The daemon was developed through a joint effort between Citrix Inc.,
93 Microsoft Corp. and Network Appliance Inc..
100 .An Microsoft BSD Integration Services Team Aq Mt bsdic@microsoft.com .