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.Dd July 1, 2022
.Dt PVSCSI 4D
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm pvscsi
.Nd VMware SCSI driver
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides a paravirtual SCSI transport, allowing
access to SCSI targets exposed to guests using VMware's
paravirtualization support.
The driver supports the following capabilities:
.Bl -dash
.It
Dynamic hot-plug (if supported by the host)
.It
Honors packet timeouts specified in
.Xr scsi_pkt 9S
.It
Reset of target or logical unit via
.Xr scsi_reset 9F
.It
Abort for individual commands via
.Xr scsi_abort 9F
.It
Command queueing (both tagged and untagged)
.El
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver is based on
.Xr iport 9 ,
and uses a single iport per PCI function,
with a unit-address of "iport0".
Children of the iport use a unit-address with the
format "target,lun", where both target and lun are
presented as hexadecimal values.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr sd 4D ,
.Xr st 4D ,
.Xr scsi 5 ,
.Xr iport 9 ,
.Xr scsi_abort 9F ,
.Xr scsi_reset 9F ,
.Xr scsi_pkt 9S