[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.
-- 
William


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