• Thumbnail for Kernel-based Virtual Machine
    Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a free and open-source virtualization module in the Linux kernel that allows the kernel to function as a hypervisor...
    14 KB (1,128 words) - 21:40, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Proxmox Virtual Environment
    management of virtual machines and containers. It is based on a modified Ubuntu LTS kernel. Two types of virtualization are supported: container-based with LXC...
    12 KB (1,029 words) - 16:36, 5 July 2024
  • or virtualized guests. While not directly linked, Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) can use KSM to merge memory pages occupied by virtual machines. KSM...
    6 KB (567 words) - 18:38, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for QEMU
    QEMU (category Free virtualization software)
    machine, enabling it to run a variety of guest operating systems. It can interoperate with Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) to run virtual machines...
    35 KB (3,860 words) - 12:24, 7 July 2024
  • contrasts with operating-system–level virtualization, where all instances (usually called containers) must share a single kernel, though the guest operating systems...
    23 KB (2,784 words) - 11:11, 5 July 2024
  • In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is the virtualization or emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and...
    26 KB (2,755 words) - 10:48, 2 July 2024
  • Qumranet (category Virtualization software)
    software company offering a desktop virtualization platform based on hosted desktops in Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVM) on servers, linked with their...
    6 KB (527 words) - 15:52, 9 August 2023
  • Libguestfs (category Virtual machines)
    implemented using the Kernel-based Virtual Machine for the Linux kernel. Free and open-source software portal Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) QEMU libvirt...
    5 KB (321 words) - 13:37, 13 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kernel (operating system)
    paging. Virtual addressing also allows creation of virtual partitions of memory in two disjointed areas, one being reserved for the kernel (kernel space)...
    82 KB (10,157 words) - 09:48, 7 July 2024
  • OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances...
    27 KB (2,240 words) - 18:19, 30 May 2024