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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.
'''KVM''' (Kernel Virtual Machine) is a Linux kernel module that allows a user space program to utilize the hardware virtualization features of various processors.  Today, it supports recent Intel and AMD processors (x86 and x86_64), PPC 440, PPC 970, S/390, ARM (Cortex A15, AArch64), and MIPS32 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 running a target architecture that is the same as the host architecture.  For instance, when running ''qemu-system-x86'' on an x86 compatible processor, you can take advantage of the KVM acceleration - giving you benefit for your host and your guest system.


* [http://www.linux-kvm.org KVM Wiki]
The KVM project used to maintain a fork of QEMU called qemu-kvm. All feature differences have been merged into QEMU upstream and the development of the fork suspended.
* Avi Kivity's QEMU [http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git repository]
 
To use KVM pass ''--enable-kvm'' to QEMU.
 
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Latest revision as of 12:11, 6 February 2017

KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) is a Linux kernel module that allows a user space program to utilize the hardware virtualization features of various processors. Today, it supports recent Intel and AMD processors (x86 and x86_64), PPC 440, PPC 970, S/390, ARM (Cortex A15, AArch64), and MIPS32 processors.

QEMU can make use of KVM when running a target architecture that is the same as the host architecture. For instance, when running qemu-system-x86 on an x86 compatible processor, you can take advantage of the KVM acceleration - giving you benefit for your host and your guest system.

The KVM project used to maintain a fork of QEMU called qemu-kvm. All feature differences have been merged into QEMU upstream and the development of the fork suspended.

To use KVM pass --enable-kvm to QEMU.