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Subject: Re: dev/virtio stuff
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> > > There are already virtio(4) man pages, but it looks like they
> > > didn't
> > > get MFC to 9.
> > 
> > Want me to shovel them back?
> > 
> 
> Sure. That would be great.
> 

Groovy, I'll poke at it directly.
> > 
> > Grabbed a verbose dmesg for you here:
> > 
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/viritio_dmesg.txt
> > 
> 
> >> GEOM: new disk vtbd0
> 
> So it seems the VirtIO block device got created just fine.
> 
> > Sean
> > 
> > 

Yep, it looks like I have to explicitly *mount* the virtio device for it
to get created in /dev though.  Is that intended?

Sean