vmwpvs(4)

vmwpvs4

Vmware paravirtual scsi

Usage

vmwpvs* at pci?

Overview

The vmwpvs driver provides support for storage controllers using the Paravirtual SCSI interface a VMware hypervisor can provide to its guests.

Examples

The following entry must be added to the VMware configuration file to provide the vmwpvs device:

scsi0.virtualDev = "pvscsi"

Releases

27 releases since OpenBSD 5.5; the text changed 1 time.

  1. 5.5–5.6
  2. 5.7–8.0

History

The vmwpvs driver first appeared in OpenBSD 5.5.

Authors

The vmwpvs driver was written by David Gwynne.

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