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32 .Nd "bhyve virtual machine monitor"
35 To load the driver as a module at boot, add this line to
37 .Bd -literal -offset indent
41 The module can also be loaded manually with
43 .Bd -literal -offset indent
48 provides the kernel portion of the
52 An Intel CPU with VT-x/EPT or AMD CPU with SVM support is required.
54 PCI device passthrough to a virtual machine requires
55 hardware with VT-d support.
57 When the hardware supports VT-d, and
59 has been loaded at boot time,
60 PCI devices can be reserved for use by the hypervisor.
61 Entries consisting of the PCI
62 .Ar bus Ns / Ns Ar slot Ns / Ns Ar function
67 Additional entries are separated by spaces.
68 Host PCI devices that match an entry will be assigned to the hypervisor
69 and will not be probed by
74 section below for sample usage.
76 A large number of PCI device entries may require a string longer than the
77 128-character limit of
84 variables can be used for additional entries.
86 Reserve three PCI devices for use by the hypervisor: bus 10 slot 0 function 0,
87 bus 6 slot 5 function 0, and bus 6 slot 5 function 1.
88 .Bd -literal -offset indent
89 pptdevs="10/0/0 6/5/0 6/5/1"
102 .An Neel Natu Aq neel@freebsd.org
103 .An Peter Grehan Aq grehan@freebsd.org