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.Dd $Mdocdate: July 16 2013 $
.Dt VIO 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm vio
.Nd VirtIO network device
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "vio* at virtio? flags 0x00"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for the
.Xr virtio 4
network interface provided by bhyve, KVM, QEMU, and VirtualBox.
.Pp
Setting flags to 0x02 disables the RingEventIndex feature.
This can be tried as a workaround for possible bugs in host implementations or
.Nm
at the cost of slightly reduced performance.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr virtio 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Ox 5.3 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
driver was ported to
.Ox
and improved by
.An Stefan Fritsch Aq Mt sf@sfritsch.de .
It is based on the
.Nx
.Nm vioif
driver by
.An Minoura Makoto .