svn commit: r245124 - projects/bhyve/share/man/man4

[Neel Natu]

Author: neel
Date: Mon Jan  7 06:37:22 2013
New Revision: 245124
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/245124

Log:
  Add man page for bhyve(4). The project as well as the man page is a
  work-in-progress.
  
  This is the first man page I have written so apologies in advance if it
  offends anybody's sensibilities :-)
  
  Reviewed by:	grehan
  Obtained from:	NetApp

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  projects/bhyve/share/man/man4/bhyve.4   (contents, props changed)

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+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 2012 NetApp Inc
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
+.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+.\"    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
+.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
+.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
+.\" ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
+.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
+.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
+.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
+.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd January 5, 2013
+.Dt BHYVE 4
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm bhyve
+.Nd virtual machine monitor
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Cd "/usr/sbin/bhyve"
+.Cd "/usr/sbin/bhyveload"
+.Cd "/usr/sbin/bhyvectl"
+.Cd "/boot/kernel/vmm.ko"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm
+is a virtual machine monitor that is hosted by FreeBSD. It is used to host
+unmodified guest operating systems on top of FreeBSD.
+.Pp
+.Nm
+relies heavily on hardware assist provided by the CPU and chipset to virtualize
+processor and memory resources.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr bhyve 8 ,
+.Xr bhyveload 8 ,
+.Xr bhyvectl 8 ,
+.Xr vmm 4
+.Sh HISTORY
+.Nm
+first appeared in
+.Fx 10.0 ,
+and was developed at NetApp Inc.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.Nm
+was developed by
+.An -nosplit
+.An "Peter Grehan" Aq grehan at FreeBSD.org
+and
+.An "Neel Natu" Aq neel at FreeBSD.org
+at NetApp Inc.
+.Sh BUGS
+.Nm
+is considered experimental in
+.Fx .