diff --git a/share/man/man4/Makefile b/share/man/man4/Makefile index ade0168cb0a..c35859b30b6 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/Makefile +++ b/share/man/man4/Makefile @@ -624,6 +624,7 @@ MAN= aac.4 \ virtio_random.4 \ virtio_scsi.4 \ ${_vmci.4} \ + vmgenc.4 \ vkbd.4 \ vlan.4 \ vxlan.4 \ diff --git a/share/man/man4/vmgenc.4 b/share/man/man4/vmgenc.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..1938e7f70ea --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/vmgenc.4 @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2026 Christos Longros +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause +.\" +.Dd March 21, 2026 +.Dt VMGENC 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm vmgenc +.Nd ACPI virtual machine generation ID counter +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd device vmgenc +.Pp +In +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Cd vmgenc_load="YES" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for the Virtual Machine Generation ID, +a 128-bit unique identifier exposed by the hypervisor via ACPI. +The hypervisor changes this identifier whenever the virtual machine +is cloned, restored from a snapshot, or otherwise duplicated. +.Pp +When a generation ID change is detected, the +.Nm +driver feeds the new identifier into the kernel entropy pool via +.Xr random 4 , +ensuring that duplicated virtual machines do not share +cryptographic state. +The driver also sends a +.Xr devctl 4 +event and an internal kernel notification so that other subsystems +can respond to the duplication. +.Pp +The Virtual Machine Generation ID specification is supported by +QEMU, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Xen. +.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES +The following variable is available: +.Bl -tag -width indent +.It Va dev.vmgenc.%d.guid +The current cached VM generation counter as a 128-bit value. +This value is updated each time the hypervisor signals a +generation change. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr acpi 4 , +.Xr random 4 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Fx 13.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Conrad Meyer Aq Mt cem@FreeBSD.org . +.Pp +This manual page was written by +.An Christos Longros Aq Mt chris.longros@gmail.com .