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Linux Virtualization Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Virtualization on 7 January 2007 at 01:00 AM EST. Add A Comment

Interested in running guest operating systems whether it be Linux or Microsoft Windows? If you are running a recent x86 processor with either AMD or Intel virtualization technology support, you can benefit from one of the changes found in the Linux 2.6.20 kernel. KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine, which allows for full virtualization of unaltered guest operating systems. KVM Virtualization is easy to use and the user-space component is simply a modified version of QEMU. At Phoronix we have compared the performance of KVM against Xen and kqemu, and this article can be read here (discussion link).

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Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.