KVM

What is KVM?

KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V).

KVM is a tool in the Infrastructure as a Service category of a tech stack.

KVM Pros & Cons

Pros of KVM

✓No license issues
✓Flexible network options
✓Very fast

Cons of KVM

No cons listed yet.

KVM Integrations

Qemu, libvirt, Multipass, Platform9 Managed OpenStack, Rex are some of the popular tools that integrate with KVM. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with KVM.

Qemu

libvirt

Multipass

Platform9 Managed OpenStack

Rex

KVM Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to KVM?

VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

VMware vSphere

vSphere is the world’s leading server virtualization platform. Run fewer servers and reduce capital and operating costs using VMware vSphere to build a cloud computing infrastructure.

Proxmox VE

It is a complete open-source platform for all-inclusive enterprise virtualization that tightly integrates KVM hypervisor and LXC containers, software-defined storage and networking functionality on a single platform, and easily manages high availability clusters and disaster recovery tools with the built-in web management interface.

Qemu

When used as a machine emulator, it can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance. When used as a virtualizer, it achieves near native performance by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. it supports virtualization when executing under the Xen hypervisor or using the KVM kernel module in Linux. When using KVM, it can virtualize x86, server and embedded PowerPC, 64-bit POWER, S390, 32-bit and 64-bit ARM, and MIPS guests.

KVM Integrations

Qemu, libvirt, Multipass, Platform9 Managed OpenStack, Rex are some of the popular tools that integrate with KVM. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with KVM.