![]() ![]() The further description assumes you have root access to your Linux system. However, current article is about qemu-kvm which is available in most common Linux distributions right now. I’m a bit unsure about the state of the art, but there are plans to merge qemu-kvm fork completely to qemu (correct me please if you know more about it). Qemu-kvm is a stable fork of QEMU point releases with kvm features or extras on top of it. ![]() This is where QEMU (generic machine emulator and virtualizer) comes to play. Sometimes kvm is mentioned as a virtual machine but this is not correct, because kvm does not provide virtualized hardware. Talking about kvm is talking about virtualization technology or about kernel modules (kvm.ko, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd-ko). ![]() ![]() Future Kernel versions will include KVM for ARM architecture too, making its ubiquitous available. Also, KVM requires a processor with a hardware virtualization extension, which is meanwhile present on most desktop and server processors. KVM is a part of the Linux Kernel since version 2.6.20 (Feb. Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a virtualization solution for the Linux kernel. This is a short but intensive QEMU-KVM tutorial Introduction to KVM # ![]()
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