VIOIF(4)

okay bestie, welcome to the VIOIF(4) page from the Kernel Interfaces Manual — it’s giving VirtIO NIC driver and we’re obsessed 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

vioif — VirtIO NIC driver ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

virtio* at pci? dev ? function ?
vioif*  at virtio?

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So virtio(4) defines an interface for efficient, standard, and extensible I/O between the hypervisor and the virtual machine — literally the whole vibe of virtio, no cap. 🦋

And the vioif driver supports virtio-compliant virtual network interface cards. That’s the main character energy right there 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• netintro(4)
• virtio(4)
• ifconfig(8)
• Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation, Virtio PCI Card Specification, http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/.

🎀 HISTORY 🎀

The vioif device driver appeared in NetBSD 6.0 — iconic from the start, fr fr 🌈

💀 BUGS 💀

No offloading support.

That’s it. That’s the bug note. She said what she said 😭

mwah 💋 — this adorable little page comes from Debian, dated November 26, 2011, and it’s still out here being VIOIF(4) 🫶