NVMM(4)

NAME
nvmm - NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor

DESCRIPTION
The nvmm driver provides kernel support for hardware-accelerated virtualization. It is made of a generic MI frontend, to which MD backends can be plugged to implement the core virtualization.

In practice, nvmm is used by the libnvmm(3) API to implement hypervisors.

SUPPORT
The following backends are supported:
-   x86-SVM, for x86 AMD CPUs
-   x86-VMX, for x86 Intel CPUs
Note that for VMX support, the CPU must also support "VMX Unrestricted Guest", which is only present if Extended Page Tables (EPT) is supported. The earliest CPU family with this feature is Westmere, and not all later CPUs have it.

SEE ALSO
libnvmm(3), nvmmctl(8)

AUTHORS
The nvmm driver was written by Maxime Villard.