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VirtualBox KVM Public Release

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VirtualBox KVM Public Release

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Post by CyberusTech »

For the past few months we have been working hard to provide a fast, reliable and secure KVM backend for VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a multi-platform Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) with a great feature set, support for a wide variety of guest operating systems, and a consistent user interface across different host operating systems.

Cyberus Technology’s KVM backend allows VirtualBox to run virtual machines utilizing the Linux KVM hypervisor instead of the custom kernel module used by standard VirtualBox. Today we are announcing the open-source release of our KVM backend for Virtualbox.

VirtualBox KVM Public Release
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Re: VirtualBox KVM Public Release

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Post by Y-bar »

I have ever only heard KVM in the context of a Keyboard Video Monitor-type device but somehow I can't fully fit that into the concept of a virtual machine. Does it mean something different here?

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Post by izacus »

Y-bar wrote: post #3

I have ever only heard KVM in the context of a Keyboard Video Monitor-type device but somehow I can't fully fit that into the concept of a virtual machine. Does it mean something different here?

It means Kernel-Based Virtual Machine, a VM engine dating back to 2007: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine

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Post by szszrk »

Y-bar wrote: post #3

I have ever only heard KVM in the context of a Keyboard Video Monitor-type device but somehow I can't fully fit that into the concept of a virtual machine. Does it mean something different here?

Yes, quite different. It's basically a project that allows you to use Linux as a hypervisor. A very popular project.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine

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Post by nonrandomstring »

viraptor wrote: post #4
Y-bar wrote: post #3

I have ever only heard KVM in the context of a Keyboard Video Monitor-type device but somehow I can't fully fit that into the concept of a virtual machine. Does it mean something different here?

https://linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page

Is there a connection to User Mode Linux (UML) from around the same time? Or are these completely unrelated projects? I get that running a kernel in the user space provided by another kernel is not really the same as a proper hypervisor, but have never really dug deep into why and what the various tradeoffs are.
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