vioblk(4)

vioblk4

Virtio disk

Usage

vioblk* at virtio?

Overview

The vioblk driver provides a virtual disk using a virtio(4) block device provided by bhyve, KVM, QEMU, and VirtualBox.

Releases

29 releases since OpenBSD 5.3; the text changed 2 times.

  1. 5.3
  2. 5.4–6.9
  3. 7.0–8.0

History

The vioblk driver first appeared in OpenBSD 5.3.

Authors

The vioblk driver was written by Stefan Fritsch ⟨[email protected]⟩, based on the vdsk(4) driver by Mark Kettenis ⟨[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.