The branch main has been updated by ziaee: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=8f6987731fab052ab6b339a428600eff99ceee9d
commit 8f6987731fab052ab6b339a428600eff99ceee9d Author: Alexander Ziaee <[email protected]> AuthorDate: 2026-08-28 17:47:05 +0000 Commit: Alexander Ziaee <[email protected]> CommitDate: 2026-08-28 17:51:49 +0000 xen.4: Canonicalize SYNOPSIS Move the prose about support that was here to the second sentence of DESCRIPTION. Remove the note about i386 since i386 is dead in 15.0. The rest of the manual still contains details about i386 and could use some TLC by a Xen user. MFC after: 3 days (to 15 only) --- share/man/man4/xen.4 | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/share/man/man4/xen.4 b/share/man/man4/xen.4 index 284b09bc87b7..87123cdd63e5 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/xen.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/xen.4 @@ -33,15 +33,18 @@ .Nm xen .Nd Xen Hypervisor Support .Sh SYNOPSIS -FreeBSD supports running both as a Xen guest and host on amd64 hardware. -Guest support is limited to HVM and PVH modes, while host support is limited to -PVH mode only. -.Pp -Xen support is built by default in the i386 and amd64 GENERIC kernels; note -however that host mode is only available on amd64. +.Cd device xenefi +.Cd device xenpci +.Cd device xentimer +.Cd options XENHVM .Sh DESCRIPTION The Xen Hypervisor allows multiple virtual machines to be run on a single computer system. +.Fx +supports running both as a Xen guest and host on amd64 hardware. +Guest support is limited to HVM and PVH modes, while host support is limited to +PVH mode only. +.Pp When first released, Xen required that i386 kernels be compiled "para-virtualized" as the x86 instruction set was not fully virtualizable. Primarily, para-virtualization modifies the virtual memory system to use
