1. VM-Talk
wanleung (2nd Dec 2011)

2. Virtualization
Sharing
●Isolation
●Emulation
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3. Common Virtualization
Full Virtualization
●Paravirtualization
●Software Emulation
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4. Full Virtualization
Hardware support - intel-VTx, AMD-V
●Vmware, Virtual Box, KVM, Xen3.0 (Citrix Xen),
Parallels (Mac), Virtual-PC (Windows)
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5. Paravirtualization
Xen, Citrix Xen
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6. Software Emulator
QEMU, DosBox, PearPC
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7. KVM
NOT Keyboard, Video, Mouse
●Kernel-based Virtual Machine
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8. KVM
Linux Kernel 2.6.20 (2007) or above
●FreeBSD and Illumos (opensolaris) also have
porting
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9. KVM requirement
Hardware Support
●Intel-VTx (grep vmx /proc/cpuinfo)
●AMD-V (grep svm /proc/cpuinfo)
●QEMU
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10. KVM Management Tools
libvirt
●Has both GUI and Command Line Tools
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11. Demo

12. Q/A
Question?
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