Devices

This document lists emulated devices in crosvm.

Emulated Devices

  • CMOS/RTC - Used to get the current calendar time.
  • i8042 - Used by the guest kernel to exit crosvm.
  • serial - x86 I/O port driven serial devices that print to stdout and take input from stdin.

VirtIO Devices

  • balloon - Allows the host to reclaim the guest's memories.
  • block - Basic read/write block device.
  • console - Input and outputs on console.
  • fs - Shares file systems over the FUSE protocol.
  • gpu - Graphics adapter.
  • input - Creates virtual human interface devices such as keyboards.
  • iommu - Emulates an IOMMU device to manage DMA from endpoints in the guest.
  • net - Device to interface the host and guest networks.
  • p9 - Shares file systems over the 9P protocol.
  • pmem - Persistent memory.
  • rng - Entropy source used to seed guest OS's entropy pool.
  • snd - Encodes and decodes audio streams.
  • tpm - Creates a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) device backed by libtpm2 simulator.
  • video - Encodes and decodes video streams.
  • wayland - Allows the guest to use the host's Wayland socket.
  • vsock - Enables use of virtual sockets for the guest.
  • vhost-user - VirtIO devices which offloads the device implementation to another process through the vhost-user protocol.