@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ descriptor either; it records only that it was imported (`is_mapped`). A
 descriptor parked in a `Queue` or sent to a `Pool` pins the memory in the
 sender until the receiver unpickles it. Besides `multiprocessing`, a process
 with its own file descriptor passing sends the descriptor's `fds`, `sizes`,
-and `size` and rebuilds it with `VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor.from_fds()`,
+and `size` and rebuilds it with `VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor.from_fds()`,
 which duplicates the integers it is given and always builds a `posix_fd`
 descriptor.
 
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ importer needs access to the exporter's IMEX channel rather than a matching
 device index, and the memory may live on another node. The file-descriptor
 rules above (ownership, pinning, `pickle` raising, the same-device check) do
 not hold for it, so fabric sharing gets a descriptor class of its own instead
-of a widened `VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor`, whose `handles` stay
+of a widened `VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor`, whose `handles` stay
 `IPCAllocationHandle`s. `from_fds()` is POSIX-only by construction for the
 same reason and takes no handle type; a fabric descriptor is plain data and
 needs no out-of-band constructor. Tracked on the VMM epic (#2980).
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ cdef class IPCAllocationHandle:
 
 # Descriptor of a VirtualMemoryResource buffer: one exported handle per
 # physical allocation that backs the buffer, in address order.
-cdef class VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor(IPCBufferDescriptor):
+cdef class VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor(IPCBufferDescriptor):
     cdef readonly int   _handle_type
     cdef readonly tuple _chunk_sizes
     cdef readonly tuple _handles
 
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ class IPCAllocationHandle:
     @property
     def uuid(self) -> uuid.UUID: ...
 
-class VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor(IPCBufferDescriptor):
+class VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor(IPCBufferDescriptor):
     """Serializable object describing a :class:`VirtualMemoryBuffer` that can be shared between processes.
 
     The descriptor holds one exported POSIX file descriptor per physical
@@ -97,9 +97,9 @@ class VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor(IPCBufferDescriptor):
     _handles: tuple[Any, ...]
 
     @staticmethod
-    def _from_exports(handle_type: int, chunk_sizes: tuple[int, ...], handles: tuple[Any, ...], size: int) -> VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor: ...
+    def _from_exports(handle_type: int, chunk_sizes: tuple[int, ...], handles: tuple[Any, ...], size: int) -> VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor: ...
     @classmethod
-    def from_fds(cls, fds: Iterable[int | IPCAllocationHandle], sizes: Iterable[int], *, size: int | None=None) -> VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor:
+    def from_fds(cls, fds: Iterable[int | IPCAllocationHandle], sizes: Iterable[int], *, size: int | None=None) -> VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor:
         """Build a descriptor from POSIX file descriptors received outside ``multiprocessing``.
 
         The exporter sends ``fds``, ``sizes``, and ``size`` of its descriptor
 
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ def _reconstruct_allocation_handle(cls: type, df: object, uuid: uuid.UUID | None
 multiprocessing.reduction.register(IPCAllocationHandle, _reduce_allocation_handle)
 
 
-cdef class VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor(IPCBufferDescriptor):
+cdef class VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor(IPCBufferDescriptor):
     """Serializable object describing a :class:`VirtualMemoryBuffer` that can be shared between processes.
 
     The descriptor holds one exported POSIX file descriptor per physical
@@ -215,9 +215,9 @@ cdef class VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor(IPCBufferDescriptor):
     @staticmethod
     def _from_exports(
         handle_type: int, chunk_sizes: tuple[int, ...], handles: tuple, size: int
-    ) -> VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor:
-        cdef VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor self = VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor.__new__(
-            VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor)
+    ) -> VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor:
+        cdef VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor self = VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor.__new__(
+            VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor)
         self._payload = b""
         self._size = size
         self._handle_type = handle_type
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ cdef class VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor(IPCBufferDescriptor):
         sizes: Iterable[int],
         *,
         size: int | None = None,
-    ) -> VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor:
+    ) -> VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor:
         """Build a descriptor from POSIX file descriptors received outside ``multiprocessing``.
 
         The exporter sends ``fds``, ``sizes``, and ``size`` of its descriptor
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ cdef class VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor(IPCBufferDescriptor):
                 raise
             # The handle owns the duplicate now; if append fails, the handle closes it once.
             handles.append(handle)
-        return VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor._from_exports(driver_type, sizes_t, tuple(handles), size)
+        return VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor._from_exports(driver_type, sizes_t, tuple(handles), size)
 
     @property
     def handle_type(self) -> VirtualMemoryHandleType:
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ cdef class VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor(IPCBufferDescriptor):
 
     def __reduce__(self) -> tuple[object, ...]:
         # multiprocessing duplicates the IPCAllocationHandle fds into the receiver; plain pickle raises.
-        return VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor._from_exports, (
+        return VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor._from_exports, (
             self._handle_type, self._chunk_sizes, self._handles, self._size)
 
 
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ cdef Buffer Buffer_from_ipc_descriptor(
     cls, object mr, IPCBufferDescriptor ipc_descriptor, stream
 ):
     """Import a buffer that was exported from another process."""
-    if isinstance(ipc_descriptor, VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor):
+    if isinstance(ipc_descriptor, VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor):
         # Imported here rather than cimported: _virtual_memory_resource
         # cimports this module.
         from cuda.core._memory._virtual_memory_resource import VirtualMemoryResource
 
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from typing import Iterable
 
 from cuda.core._device import Device
 from cuda.core._memory._buffer import Buffer, MemoryResource
-from cuda.core._memory._ipc import VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor
+from cuda.core._memory._ipc import VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor
 from cuda.core._stream import Stream
 from cuda.core._utils.cuda_utils import driver
 from cuda.core.graph import GraphBuilder
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ class VirtualMemoryBuffer(Buffer):
     freed when the last buffer that maps it closes.
     """
     @property
-    def ipc_descriptor(self) -> VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor:
+    def ipc_descriptor(self) -> VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor:
         """A new descriptor for sharing this buffer with other processes.
 
         Every access exports the physical allocations that back the buffer
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ class VirtualMemoryResource(MemoryResource):
     is not visible. Plain ``pickle`` cannot carry the file descriptors; a
     process with its own file descriptor passing sends the descriptor's
     ``fds``, ``sizes``, and ``size`` and rebuilds it with
-    ``VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor.from_fds()``. The importing resource
+    ``VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor.from_fds()``. The importing resource
     maps the memory for its device and the devices in its ``peers`` option,
     with its own access options. A descriptor pins the physical memory while
     it exists, in every process that holds one, and nothing else does. A
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ class VirtualMemoryResource(MemoryResource):
         (``location_type`` ``"host"``, ``"host_numa"``, or
         ``"host_numa_current"``) is not shared yet.
         """
-    def _import_ipc_buffer(self, desc: VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor, stream) -> VirtualMemoryBuffer:
+    def _import_ipc_buffer(self, desc: VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor, stream) -> VirtualMemoryBuffer:
         """Import a buffer that another process exported; see :meth:`Buffer.from_ipc_descriptor`.
 
         Every exported allocation is imported with this resource's handle
 
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from cuda.core._memory._buffer cimport (
 from cuda.core._memory._ipc cimport (
     IPCAllocationHandle,
     IPCDataForBuffer,
-    VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor,
+    VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor,
 )
 from cuda.core._rt cimport (
     ContextHandle,
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ cdef class VirtualMemoryBuffer(Buffer):
     """
 
     @property
-    def ipc_descriptor(self) -> VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor:
+    def ipc_descriptor(self) -> VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor:
         """A new descriptor for sharing this buffer with other processes.
 
         Every access exports the physical allocations that back the buffer
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ cdef class VirtualMemoryResource(MemoryResource):
     is not visible. Plain ``pickle`` cannot carry the file descriptors; a
     process with its own file descriptor passing sends the descriptor's
     ``fds``, ``sizes``, and ``size`` and rebuilds it with
-    ``VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor.from_fds()``. The importing resource
+    ``VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor.from_fds()``. The importing resource
     maps the memory for its device and the devices in its ``peers`` option,
     with its own access options. A descriptor pins the physical memory while
     it exists, in every process that holds one, and nothing else does. A
@@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ cdef class VirtualMemoryResource(MemoryResource):
             and self.config.location_type not in _HOST_LOCATION_TYPES
         )
 
-    def _import_ipc_buffer(self, VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor desc not None, stream) -> VirtualMemoryBuffer:
+    def _import_ipc_buffer(self, VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor desc not None, stream) -> VirtualMemoryBuffer:
         """Import a buffer that another process exported; see :meth:`Buffer.from_ipc_descriptor`.
 
         Every exported allocation is imported with this resource's handle
@@ -1092,7 +1092,7 @@ def _reconstruct_virtual_memory_resource(
     return cls(device, replace(config, peers=peers))
 
 
-cdef VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor _export_ipc_descriptor(Buffer buf):
+cdef VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor _export_ipc_descriptor(Buffer buf):
     """Export the allocations that back ``buf`` as shareable handles, in address order.
 
     Only the allocations that cover ``buf.size`` are exported; a buffer's size
@@ -1154,4 +1154,4 @@ cdef VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor _export_ipc_descriptor(Buffer buf):
         # The handle owns the fd now; if append fails, the handle closes it once.
         handles.append(handle)
         sizes.append(chunk)
-    return VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor._from_exports(handle_type, tuple(sizes), tuple(handles), buf._size)
+    return VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor._from_exports(handle_type, tuple(sizes), tuple(handles), buf._size)
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ CUDA runtime
    _device.DeviceProperties
    _memory._ipc.IPCAllocationHandle
    _memory._ipc.IPCBufferDescriptor
-   _memory._ipc.VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor
+   _memory._ipc.VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor
    _memory._managed_buffer.AccessedBySetProxy
 
 
 
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ New features
   physical allocation and pins the memory while it exists; nothing else does.
   A buffer that contains imported memory cannot be exported again. For a
   transport of your own, the descriptor exposes ``fds``, ``sizes``, and
-  ``size``, and ``VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor.from_fds()`` rebuilds it
+  ``size``, and ``VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor.from_fds()`` rebuilds it
   in the receiver. Fabric handles are not shared yet.
   (`#2980 <https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-python/issues/2980>`__)
 
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 from cuda.bindings import driver
 from cuda.core import Buffer, Device, MemoryResource, VirtualMemoryResource, VirtualMemoryResourceOptions
 from cuda.core._dlpack import DLDeviceType
-from cuda.core._memory._ipc import IPCAllocationHandle, IPCBufferDescriptor, VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor
+from cuda.core._memory._ipc import IPCAllocationHandle, IPCBufferDescriptor, VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor
 from cuda.core._memory._virtual_memory_resource import VirtualMemoryBuffer
 from cuda.core._utils.cuda_utils import CUDAError, handle_return
 from cuda.core.utils import StridedMemoryView
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ def _forge(desc, **fields):
     fields.setdefault("chunk_sizes", desc._chunk_sizes)
     fields.setdefault("handles", desc._handles)
     fields.setdefault("size", desc.size)
-    return VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor._from_exports(
+    return VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor._from_exports(
         fields["handle_type"], fields["chunk_sizes"], fields["handles"], fields["size"]
     )
 
@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ def test_round_trip_with_os_dup(self, vmm_ipc_device):
         del desc
         gc.collect()
         assert _open_fds() == fds0 + 2
-        rebuilt = VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor.from_fds(wire["fds"], wire["sizes"], size=wire["size"])
+        rebuilt = VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor.from_fds(wire["fds"], wire["sizes"], size=wire["size"])
         assert _open_fds() == fds0 + 4, "from_fds duplicates the integers it is given"
         for fd in wire["fds"]:
             os.close(fd)  # the caller keeps ownership of its own
@@ -838,7 +838,7 @@ def test_from_fds_shares_handle_objects_and_rejects_bad_input(self, vmm_ipc_devi
         buf = mr.allocate(1)
         gran = buf.size
         desc = buf.ipc_descriptor
-        from_fds = VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor.from_fds
+        from_fds = VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor.from_fds
 
         shared = from_fds(desc.handles, desc.sizes)
         assert shared.handles[0] is desc.handles[0]  # an IPCAllocationHandle is shared, not duplicated
@@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ def child_main(device_id, sock, queue):
         with sock:
             msg, fds, _flags, _addr = socket.recv_fds(sock, 4096, 16)
         header = json.loads(msg)
-        desc = VirtualMemoryIPCBufferDescriptor.from_fds(fds, header["sizes"], size=header["size"])
+        desc = VirtualMemoryFdBufferDescriptor.from_fds(fds, header["sizes"], size=header["size"])
         for fd in fds:
             os.close(fd)  # from_fds duplicated them; the received ones are ours to close
         imported = Buffer.from_ipc_descriptor(_resource(device), desc, stream=device.default_stream)