Understanding the Nytro XD Solution : Kernel-Based Virtual Machine Support

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine Support

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a complete virtualization solution for Linux on the x86-64 hardware containing the virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It contains kvm.ko, a loadable Kernel module, which provides the core virtualization infrastructure and kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko, a processor-specific module.