xnf(4)

xnf4

Xen netfront networking interface

Usage

xnf* at xen?

Overview

The xnf driver provides support for a paravirtual networking interface “Netfront” native to the Xen hypervisor.

During attach the xnf driver will ask the hypervisor to switch all configured virtual interfaces over to the Netfront interface regardless of the VM configuration.

Releases

Unchanged in 23 releases since OpenBSD 5.9.

  1. 5.9–8.0

History

The xnf driver first appeared in OpenBSD 5.9.

Authors

The xnf driver was written by Mike Belopuhov ⟨[email protected]⟩ from scratch, inspired by the FreeBSD implementation.

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