OSMO-BTS-VIRTUAL(8)

💖 osmo-bts-virtual — the manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so you're reading the osmo-bts-virtual(8) page?? iconic of you honestly. this is the Virtual Radio Layer, and yes it's exactly as slay as it sounds. let's get into it 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

osmo-bts-virtual — the Virtual Radio Layer 💅

like. it's a radio layer. but virtual. main character energy fr fr.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

osmo-bts-virtual -c osmo-bts.cfg

that's the whole vibe. one binary, one config file, and we're off 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

soooo this page is NOT gonna hold your hand through every little thing, and that's on purpose bestie — the real documentation lives on the internet, where it belongs ✨

Find documentation for the osmo-bts-virtual project at https://downloads.osmocom.org/docs/osmo-bts/

and if you want the juicy lore about the virtual Um interface specifically, it's right here:

https://projects.osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Virtual_Um

go read them, they ate 💜 no cap, the second one is where the virtual Um interface gossip lives and you WILL want it iykyk.

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💫 SEE ALSO 💫

• osmo-trx-uhd(1)
• osmo-bsc(8)

the whole friend group honestly 🫶 go say hi to them too.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Debian MobCom Team for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

shoutout to the Debian MobCom Team, they literally wrote this and then graciously let other people use it too. kings and queens behavior, periodt 💖

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and that's the page!! this was OSMO-BTS-VIRTUAL(8), dated 26 January 2026, and yes the header and footer say the same thing because it's the same page bestie, that's how manpages work 😭

stay hydrated, read your docs, and go virtual-radio-layer your way through the day 🌈⭐🧚