XBF(4) | Device Drivers Manual | XBF(4)

# NAME

`xbf` — Xen Blkfront virtual disk

# SYNOPSIS

`xbf* at xen?`

# DESCRIPTION

The `xbf` driver provides support for a paravirtual disk interface "Blkfront", native to the Xen hypervisor.

During attach the `xbf` driver will ask the hypervisor to switch all configured virtual disks over to the Blkfront interface regardless of the VM configuration.

# SEE ALSO

autoconf(4), intro(4), xen(4)

# HISTORY

The `xbf` driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.1.

# AUTHORS

The `xbf` driver was written by Mike Belopuhov <mikeb@openbsd.org> based on the vdsk(4) driver by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org>, inspired by the FreeBSD implementation.

December 7, 2016 | Debian