how-to-install-kvm-on-ubuntu-16-04.md 770 B
Title: "How to install KVM on Ubuntu 16.04" Date: 2016-08-27 20:09:20 Categories: [devops] tags: [kvm] Slug: how-to-install-kvm-on-ubuntu-16-04
Authors: sedlav
You can use KVM to run multiple operating systems such as Windows, *BSD, Linux distro using virtual machines. Each virtual machine has its private disk, graphics card, a network card and more.
KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko.