VDPA(8)

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💖 VDPA(8) 💖

okay bestie, so this is vdpa — the vdpa management tool, living in section 8 of the Linux manual. yes it's a real one. no i will not stop talking about it. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

vdpa [ OPTIONS ] { dev|mgmtdev } { COMMAND | help }

like, that's the whole vibe. options first, then you pick your object, then you tell it what to do. simple. iconic. 💅

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • -V, --Version — prints the version of the vdpa utility and then dips out. cute, quick, done. ✨
  • -j, --json — generates JSON output. for the girlies who pipe things into other things. 🔥
  • -p, --pretty — when you pair this with -j, the JSON comes out pretty. yeah, that's it. it's the eyeliner of output formats. 🎀

👑 OBJECT 👑

  • dev — a vdpa device.
  • mgmtdev — a vdpa management device.

💫 COMMAND 💫

so this one tells you what action to actually perform on the object. and listen — the set of possible actions depends on the object type, okay? it's not one-size-fits-all. it is possible to show (or list) objects. and the help command? available for all objects, no gatekeeping. it prints out a list of available commands plus the argument syntax conventions. literally the friendliest thing in here. 🫶

pro tip from your girl: if no command is given, some default command is assumed. usually that's show, or — if the objects of this class can't be listed — help. the tool just kinda picks for you. main character energy, honestly.

⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

exit status is 0 if the command was successful, or a positive integer if it failed. so 0 = slay, anything else = 😭.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read those too, i'm not kidding, they're right there. iykyk.

💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

found a bug? report it to the Network Developers mailing list <netdev@vger.kernel.org> — that's where the development and maintenance is primarily done. and no cap: you do not have to be subscribed to the list to send a message there. just send it. they want to hear from you. 📬

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com> — the legend themselves. 👑

and that's the whole page, bestie. this one came from iproute2, dated 5 Jan 2021, and it's filed under VDPA(8) in the Linux man pages. go manage some vdpa devices, you absolute icon. 🧚💖

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