VIRTIO_CONSOLE(4)

💖 VIRTIO_CONSOLE 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the virtio_console page — this is section 4 of the Kernel Interfaces Manual, and she is the VirtIO Console driver ✨ she's not complicated, she's just iconic.

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✨ NAME ✨

virtio_console — the VirtIO Console driver, no cap 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

so like, if you want this driver baked straight into your kernel (main character energy, no modules), you drop these lines into your kernel configuration file:

device virtio_console

orrr, if you'd rather load her as a module at boot time (lowkey easier, highkey valid), put this line in loader.conf(5):

virtio_console_load="YES"

both paths slay, pick your vibe 🦋

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

The virtio_console device driver provides support for VirtIO console devices. that's the whole point of her, she ate and left no crumbs 💜

The console device may have one or more ports. Each port is similar to a simple serial interface, and each port is accessible through tty(4). so yeah — ports, serial-ish vibes, and you get at them through tty(4). periodt 🌈

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /dev/ttyV?.??

that's the one, that's the file, go say hi 🫶

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• tty(4)
• virtio(4)

go read those too, iykyk 💖

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👑 HISTORY 👑

The virtio_console driver was written by Bryan Venteicher <bryanv@FreeBSD.org>. thank you Bryan, genuinely, we are obsessed 🙈💅

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ngl that's the whole page bestie — short, sweet, and absolutely serving. now go load that module and be free 🧚

mwah 💋 this edition came to you from Debian, dated October 22, 2014 — and yes she's still cute, don't @ me 🍓