VMWPVS(4)

💖 VMWPVS(4) — vmwpvs, bestie 💖

okay so this is the manual page for vmwpvs, section 4 of the manual (that's the kernel interfaces girlies, iykyk) ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vmwpvs — VMware Paravirtual SCSI. that's it, that's the vibe 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

vmwpvs* at pci?

literally just that. king behavior 👑

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so the vmwpvs driver is out here providing support for storage controllers that use the Paravirtual SCSI interface — which is a thing a VMware hypervisor can hand to its guests 🫶 not me being obsessed with paravirtualization fr fr 💜

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🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

bestie listen, if you want the vmwpvs device to actually show up, you must add the following entry to the VMware configuration file:

scsi0.virtualDev = "pvscsi"

no cap, it literally says "must" 😭 don't skip it, she'll be mad 🙈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• intro(4)
• pci(4)
• scsi(4)

go read those too, they're iconic in their own right 💀

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

the vmwpvs driver first appeared in OpenBSD 5.5 🌈 a legit historical moment, honestly 👑

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🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

the vmwpvs driver was written by David Gwynne. we stan a legend 💖🌸

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💜 fun fact for the group chat: this page is tagged Debian, dated August 25, 2014, and filed under VMWPVS(4) — so now you know exactly where to find her again 🎀✨ slay, bye bestie! 🦋👑