[GTALUG] Setting up a VM host
William Park
opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Thu Sep 1 22:07:41 EDT 2016
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 10:07:03AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 09:33:50PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote:
> > - QEMU and VirtualBox. They both use KVM.
>
> Virtualbox does not use kvm. It will use vt-x if you have it.
> kvm requires it.
Now you got me confused. I thought VirtualBox and QEMU are just
"emulator" which use KVM kernel modules (ie. kvm, kvm-intel, kvm-amd) if
they are available, or do full software emulation if not available.
And, VT-x is required for KVM kernel modules to work.
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William
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