hvs(4)

hvs4

Hyper-v virtual disk

Usage

hvs* at hyperv?

Overview

The hvs driver provides support for a Storage Virtual Service Client (StorVSC), a virtual disk interface that relays device requests to the Virtual Service Provider (VSP) in the management operating system via the VMBus.

StorVSC provides a unified interface to emulated IDE and SCSI devices.

Releases

Unchanged in 20 releases since OpenBSD 6.2.

  1. 6.2–8.0

History

The hvs driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.2.

Authors

The hvs driver was written by Mike Belopuhov ⟨[email protected]⟩ based on the FreeBSD driver by the Microsoft BSD Integration Services Team ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.