viocon(4)

NAME

viocon – VirtIO console device

SYNOPSIS

viocon* at virtio?

DESCRIPTION

The viocon driver provides support for the virtio(4) console interface provided by KVM, QEMU, and others.

It provides serial ports that are attached as ttys. Use as a kernel console for OpenBSD is not yet supported. The multiport feature is not yet supported.

FILES

/dev/ttyVI00

/dev/ttyVI10

/dev/ttyVI20

/dev/ttyVI30

/dev/ttyVI40

SEE ALSO

intro(4), tty(4), virtio(4)

HISTORY

The viocon driver first appeared in OpenBSD 5.9.

AUTHORS

The viocon driver was written by Stefan Fritsch ⟨[email protected]⟩.