virtio_console(4)

virtio_console4

Virtio console driver

Usage

device virtio_console

In loader.conf(5): virtio_console_load="YES"

Overview

The virtio_console device driver provides support for VirtIO console devices.

The console device may have one or more ports. Each port is similar to a simple serial interface, and each port is accessible through tty(4).

Files

/dev/ttyV?.??

Releases

28 releases since FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE; the text changed 15 times.

  1. 10.2
  2. 10.3
  3. 10.4
  4. 11.0
  5. 11.1
  6. 11.2
  7. 11.3
  8. 11.4
  9. 12.0
  10. 12.1
  11. 12.2
  12. 12.3
  13. 12.4
  14. 13.0–13.2
  15. 13.3–15.1
  16. 16.0

Authors

Bryan Venteicher ⟨[email protected]⟩

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.