NVME-VIRT-MGMT(1)

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💖 nvme-virt-mgmt(1) — fresh from the NVMe Manual 💖

✨ NAME ✨

nvme-virt-mgmt — bestie, this is the command that manages flexible resources between a primary and secondary controller. periodt. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

       nvme [<global-options>] virt-mgmt <device> [--cntlid=<cntlid> | -c <cntlid>]
                               [--rt=<rt> | -r <rt>] [--act=<act> | -a <act>]
                               [--nr=<nr> | -n <nr>]

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

okay so this command manages flexible resources between a primary and secondary controller, and it returns results. main character energy fr fr ✨

The <device> parameter is mandatory — literally not optional, bestie — and may be either the NVMe character device (ex: /dev/nvme0) or block device (ex: /dev/nvme0n1). 🫶

On success it returns 0; otherwise it returns an error code. no cap. 💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -c <cntlid>, --cntlid=<cntlid> — Controller identifier (CNTLID). it's giving "which controller, bestie?" 💅
  • -r <rt>, --rt=<rt> — Resource Type (RT): [0,1] 0h: VQ Resources 1h: VI Resources. pick your resource vibe 🌈
  • -a <act>, --act=<act> — Action(ACT): [1,7,8,9] 1h: Primary Flexible 7h: Secondary Offline 8h: Secondary Assign 9h: Secondary Online. so many iconic actions 💫
  • -n <nr>, --nr=<nr> — Number of controller resources (NR). the count, periodt. 🔢

👑 GLOBAL OPTIONS 👑

The top-level nvme command defines these options, and they're available to this subcommand too. slay 💖

  • --dry-run — Print the command that would be executed, but do not actually execute it. all talk, no action 💅
  • --no-ioctl-probing — Disable probing for 64-bit IOCTL support. no probing today, bestie 🙈
  • --no-retries — Disable retry logic on transient errors. one shot, one opportunity ✨
  • -o <fmt>, --output-format=<fmt> — Set the reporting format to normal, tabular, 'json, or binary. Only one output format may be used at a time. choose ur fighter 🎀
  • --output-format-version=<version> — Select the output format version. Version 1 uses the original field naming, while version 2 (default) provides more consistent and script-friendly field names. Other versions are rejected. v2 is the default, iykyk 💅
  • --quiet — Suppress informational messages. Errors are still reported, and --quiet cancels any --verbose for the library log level. shhh, but not too shhh 🤫
  • --set-options=<key=value>[,<key=value>...] — Set libnvme library options for this invocation. Supported keys are force-4k, mi-probe-enabled, test-base-dir and test-sysfs-dir. key-value cutie behavior 🦋
  • --timeout=<ms> — Set the timeout for the command in milliseconds. infinite or -1 waits without a time limit (0xffffffff). no clock-watching energy ⏳
  • -v, --verbose — Increase the level of detail in the output. May be specified multiple times to further increase verbosity. more tea, more details 🍓

These options can also be set as machine-wide defaults in nvme-cli.conf(5). A command-line flag always overrides the file. facts are facts ✅

🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

  • This example has the program issue a virt-mgmt to manage flexible resources. iconic behavior, honestly 👑
# nvme virt-mgmt /dev/nvme0 -c 0 -r 1 -a 1 -n 0

👑 NVME 👑

Part of the nvme-user suite. periodt. 💖

mwah 💋 — this page is from source NVMe, dated 10/30/2026. bye bestie, go manage those flexible resources! 🫶✨

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