Features/KVM: Difference between revisions

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KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) is a Linux kernel module that allows a userspace program to utilize the hardware virtualization features of various processors. Today, it supports recent Intel and AMD chips, PPC 440, PPC 970, and S/390 processors.

QEMU can make use of KVM when simulating a target architecture that is the same as the host architecture. For instance, when running qemu-system-x86 on an Intel processor, you can take advantage of KVM acceleration.

KVM Wiki
Avi Kivity's QEMU repository

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 KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) is a Linux kernel module that allows a userspace program to utilize the hardware virtualization features of various processors.  Today, it supports recent Intel and AMD chips, PPC 440, PPC 970, and S/390 processors.
-QEMU can make use of KVM when simulating the target architecture is the same as the host architecture.  For instance, when running qemu-system-x86 on an Intel processor, you can take advantage of KVM acceleration.
+QEMU can make use of KVM when simulating a target architecture that is the same as the host architecture.  For instance, when running qemu-system-x86 on an Intel processor, you can take advantage of KVM acceleration.
 * [http://www.linux-kvm.org KVM Wiki]
 * Avi Kivity's QEMU [http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git repository]