Mention virtio support.

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Craig Rodrigues 2013-12-22 11:41:26 +00:00
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support. These features are on all Nehalem models and beyond
(e.g. Nehalem and newer), but not on the lower-end Atom CPUs.</para>
<para revision="227652">&man.virtio.4; support has been added. &man.virtio.4; is the
name for the paravirtualization interface developed for the Linux KVM, but
since adopted to other virtual machine hypervisors (with the notable exception of Xen).
This work brings in a BSD-licensed clean-room implementation of the virtio kernel drivers
for disk IO (&man.virtio_blk.4; and &man.virtio_scsi.4;), network IO (&man.vtnet.4;),
memory ballooning (&man.virtio_balloon.4;), and PCI.
Tested with on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and &man.bhyve.4;.</para>
<para arch="amd64">The maximum amount of memory the &os; kernel
can address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB.</para>