Virtual Device Reference

This chapter presents the virtual devices (vdevs) delivered with QNX hypervisors, and describes how to configure these vdevs.

Note:

For general information about configuring VMs, including syntax, see “Assembling and configuring VMs” in the “Configuration” chapter.
For information about the options used for configuring VMs, see the “VM Configuration Reference” chapter.
For information about options available to all vdevs, see “Common vdev options”.

Implicit vdevs

An implicit vdev is a vdev that is in the qvm process code, so it is present even if you don't specify it. You need to specify this vdev only if you want to use non-default values for its options. Implicit vdevs are marked as such in the individual vdev descriptions in this chapter.

Syntax

All vdevs specified in a qvm configuration are preceded by the vdev option, which identifies the component as a virtual device. Its mandatory name argument specifies the device type:

vdev name

For example, the following creates a vdev that emulates an Intel 8254 timer chip:

vdev timer8254
    intr myioapic:0

Note: The qvm configuration parsing and validation allows colons (“:”) in the name argument, because they may be used with some vdevs. However, this character is not supported for Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC) vdevs (e.g., the gic or ioapic vdev). If you use a colon in a PIC device name, you will get an error when you attempt to refer to it in the configuration for another vdev (e.g., in an intr option).