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14.Dd July 1, 2022
15.Dt PVSCSI 4D
16.Os
17.Sh NAME
18.Nm pvscsi
19.Nd VMware SCSI driver
20.Sh DESCRIPTION
21The
22.Nm
23driver provides a paravirtual SCSI transport, allowing
24access to SCSI targets exposed to guests using VMware's
25paravirtualization support.
26The driver supports the following capabilities:
27.Bl -dash
28.It
29Dynamic hot-plug (if supported by the host)
30.It
31Honors packet timeouts specified in
32.Xr scsi_pkt 9S
33.It
34Reset of target or logical unit via
35.Xr scsi_reset 9F
36.It
37Abort for individual commands via
38.Xr scsi_abort 9F
39.It
40Command queueing (both tagged and untagged)
41.El
42.Pp
43The
44.Nm
45driver is based on
46.Xr iport 9 ,
47and uses a single iport per PCI function,
48with a unit-address of "iport0".
49Children of the iport use a unit-address with the
50format "target,lun", where both target and lun are
51presented as hexadecimal values.
52.Sh SEE ALSO
53.Xr sd 4D ,
54.Xr st 4D ,
55.Xr scsi 5 ,
56.Xr iport 9 ,
57.Xr scsi_abort 9F ,
58.Xr scsi_reset 9F ,
59.Xr scsi_pkt 9S
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