NAME

xnf — Xen Netfront networking interface

SYNOPSIS

xnf* at xen?

DESCRIPTION

The xnf driver provides support for a paravirtual networking interface “Netfront” native to the Xen hypervisor.

During attach the xnf driver will ask the hypervisor to switch all configured virtual interfaces over to the Netfront interface regardless of the VM configuration.

SEE ALSO

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

HISTORY

The xnf driver first appeared in OpenBSD 5.9.

AUTHORS

The xnf driver was written by Mike Belopuhov <mikeb@openbsd.org> from scratch, inspired by the FreeBSD implementation.