Chapter 1. An Overview of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
This introductory chapter will help you understand the following things before deploying and managing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV):
- Virtualization and its basic concepts
- An overview of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) RHEV
- The RHEV architecture and its components
- Hardware and software prerequisites
The virtualization overview
Hardware virtualization or platform virtualization allows multiple operating system instances to run concurrently on a single computer. This is a means of separating hardware from a single operating system. A hypervisor or Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) is a piece of computer software that runs on host machine, which will allow you to create and manage the ...
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