NVMM(4) | Device Drivers Manual | 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

# SEE ALSO

libnvmm(3), nvmmctl(8)

# AUTHORS

The `nvmm` driver was written by Maxime Villard.

February 9, 2020 | NetBSD 9.3