This software includes an API library, a daemon (libvirtd), and a command line utility (virsh). Instead of this tool, you can use the software package known as libvirt which is more convenient and recommended way to manage virtual machines. The KVM package provides qemu-kvm, a hypervisor specific tool to manage virtual machines. This is the 1st article in an on-going series of articles on KVM. In Para virtualization, the operating system is modified to work with a virtual machine, which will minimize the execution time required to perform the operations that are otherwise difficult to run in a virtual environment. Para-virtualization enables several operating systems to run on one set of hardware by effectively using resources such as processors and memory. The guest operating systems can be fully virtualized or para virtualized. KVM stands for Kernel-based Virtual Machine.Īs the name suggests, this is kernel based virtualization technology for Linux OS on hardware that supports virtualization.
