LSVIO(8)

📦 version 1.7.15, in opensuse-leap 16.0

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to LSVIO(8) — the lsvio manual page — and it is literally here to “list virtual I/O adapters and devices.” That’s the whole assignment. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

lsvio [-v | --version] [-s | --scsi] [-e | --ethernet] [-d | --devices]
      [-p<database-filename> | --path=<database-filename> |
      -z<database-archive> | --zip=<database-archive>] [-D | --debug]
      [-h | --help]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This program is part of the lsvpd package for Linux. This package is a (partial) reimplementation of AIX’s lsvpd and related commands. iconic behavior, honestly.

lsvio lists virtual I/O adapters and devices. It retrieves information from lsvpd’s hardware inventory database. Therefore, the vpdupdate(8) command must have been executed prior to running lsvio.

bestie, run vpdupdate(8) first — that’s not optional vibes, that’s the actual requirement. 🫶

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -v, --version — Prints the version of tool. yes, exactly like that 💅
  • -s, --scsi — Lists names and physical locations of virtual SCSI adapters.
  • -e, --ethernet — Lists names and physical locations of virtual Ethernet adapters.
  • -d, --devices — Lists virtual SCSI devices and their associated adapters.
  • -p<database-filename>, --path=<database-filename> — Use <database-filename> as the hardware inventory database, rather than the default database. Path specified must be a full path including filename. (/var/lib/lsvpd/vpd.db). This option is useful for producing output for previous hardware inventory databases that have been replaced by the system. 🗂️
  • -z<database-archive>, --zip=<database-archive> — Use <database-archive> as the hardware inventory database, rather than the default directory (/var/lib/lsvpd/). The archive has been compressed using gzip(1). This option is useful for producing output for old hardware inventory databases that have been archived by the system. 🗜️
  • -D, --debug — Display extra information about the devices. For example, sysfs location, device-tree node etc., is displayed. 🔍
  • -h, --help — Display a help screen and quit.

💾 FILES 💾

  • /var/lib/lsvpd/vpd.db — Database file used by lsvio.

😭 BUGS 😭

lsvio is supported since Linux 2.6 on systems with virtual I/O. On other systems lsvio will probably exit with an error message. not me finding out the hard way 💀

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

Eric Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>. Brad Peters <bpeters@us.ibm.com>.

Copyright (c) 2002 - 2013 IBM.

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