November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
14h 29m
English
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KVM virtual machines
A Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a kernel module that is added to Linux for full virtualization to create isolated, fully independent virtual machines. KVMs are not dependent on the host operating system in any way, but they do require the virtualization feature in BIOS to be enabled. A KVM allows a wide variety of operating systems for virtual machines, such as Linux and Windows. Proxmox provides a very stable environment for KVM-based VMs. We will learn how to create KVM VMs and also how to manage them in Chapter 6, KVM Virtual Machines.