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.\"	$NetBSD: nvmm.4,v 1.4.4.1 2020/02/10 19:05:05 martin Exp $
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.\" by Maxime Villard.
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.Dd February 9, 2020
.Dt NVMM 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm nvmm
.Nd NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides kernel support for hardware-accelerated virtualization.
It is made of a generic MI frontend, to which MD backends can be plugged
to implement the core virtualization.
.Pp
In practice,
.Nm
is used by the
.Xr libnvmm 3
API to implement hypervisors.
.Sh SUPPORT
The following backends are supported:
.Bl -hyphen -compact -offset indent
.It
x86-SVM, for x86 AMD CPUs
.It
x86-VMX, for x86 Intel CPUs
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr libnvmm 3 ,
.Xr nvmmctl 8
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Maxime Villard .