20. Installing KVM Virtualization on CentOS 8
Prior to CentOS 6 two virtualization platforms were provided with CentOS in the form of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and Xen. With the release of CentOS 6, support for Xen was removed leaving KVM as the only bundled virtualization option supplied with CentOS 8. In addition to KVM, third party solutions are available in the form of products such as VMware and Oracle VirtualBox. Since KVM is supplied with CentOS 8, however, this is the virtualization solution that will be covered in this and subsequent chapters.
Before plunging into installing and running KVM it is worth taking a little time to talk about how it fits into the various types of virtualization outlined in the previous chapter.
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