KVM


Introduction

Ubuntu uses KVM as the back-end virtualization technology primarily for non-graphic servers and libvirt as its toolkit/API. Libvirt front ends for managing VMs include virt-manager (GUI) or virsh (CLI).

Documentation

Notes

  • Also check out the official docs, https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/virtualization-introduction

  • The use case targeted when KVM was moved into main is "server virtualization". This means that even though KVM can be used to serve other purposes, it has been designed to be run on Ubuntu Server Edition to host non-graphical server operating systems. If you are looking for software to serve graphically-based virtual machines, VirtualBox, Parallels Workstation (or Parallels Desktop for Mac), or VMware Player/Server are more suitable alternatives.


CategoryVirtualization

KVM (last edited 2021-08-09 11:15:18 by fitojb)