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.\" $OpenBSD: vds.4,v 1.4 2013/07/16 16:05:50 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Mark Kettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org>
.\"
.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
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.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: July 16 2013 $
.Dt VDS 4 sparc64
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm vds
.Nd virtual disk server
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "vds* at cbus?"
.Cd "vdsp* at vds?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides a virtual disk server using the services provided by
the UltraSPARC Hypervisor as found on sun4v systems.
It provides the backing storage for virtual disks in other logical
domains through a logical domain channel provided by the UltraSPARC
Hypervisor.
The
.Nm
driver uses disk images in the form of regular files.
The name of the file used for the disk image is taken from the
domain's machine description.
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver supports version 1.0 and version 1.1 of the vDisk protocol.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr cbus 4 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr vdsk 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Ox 4.7 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Mark Kettenis Aq Mt kettenis@openbsd.org .
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