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Experiment No.2

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is an open source virtualization technology that is built into the Linux kernel. KVM allows a Linux host machine to run multiple isolated virtual machines. KVM converts Linux into a type-1 hypervisor by implementing every VM as a regular Linux process with virtual hardware like a CPU, memory, and disks. To use KVM, a Linux version from 2007 or later must be installed on x86 hardware supporting virtualization, and two kernel modules and an emulator must be loaded to run additional systems as virtual machines.

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Experiment No.2

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is an open source virtualization technology that is built into the Linux kernel. KVM allows a Linux host machine to run multiple isolated virtual machines. KVM converts Linux into a type-1 hypervisor by implementing every VM as a regular Linux process with virtual hardware like a CPU, memory, and disks. To use KVM, a Linux version from 2007 or later must be installed on x86 hardware supporting virtualization, and two kernel modules and an emulator must be loaded to run additional systems as virtual machines.

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Experiment No.

2
Aim:- Creating and running virtual machines on Hosted Hypervisor like Virtual Box
and KVM.

Theory:-

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is an open source virtualization technology built


into Linux®. Specifically, KVM lets you turn Linux into a hypervisor that allows a host
machine to run multiple, isolated virtual environments called guests or virtual
machines (VMs).

KVM is part of Linux. If you’ve got Linux 2.6.20 or newer, you’ve got KVM. KVM was
first announced in 2006 and merged into the mainline Linux kernel version a year
later. Because KVM is part of existing Linux code, it immediately benefits from every
new Linux feature, fix, and advancement without additional engineering.

How does KVM work?


KVM converts Linux into a type-1 (bare-metal) hypervisor. All hypervisors need some
operating system-level components—such as a memory manager, process
scheduler, input/output (I/O) stack, device drivers, security manager, a network
stack, and more—to run VMs. KVM has all these components because it’s part of
the Linux kernel. Every VM is implemented as a regular Linux process, scheduled by
the standard Linux scheduler, with dedicated virtual hardware like a network card,
graphics adapter, CPU(s), memory, and disks.

Implementing KVM
Long story short, you have to run a version of Linux that was released after 2007 and
it needs to be installed on X86 hardware that supports virtualization capabilities. If
both of those boxes are checked, then all you have to do is load 2 existing modules
(a host kernel module and a processor-specific module), an emulator, and any
drivers that will help you run additional systems.
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is an open source virtualization technology
built into Linux®. Specifically, KVM lets you turn Linux into a hypervisor that allows a
host machine to run multiple, isolated virtual environments called guests or virtual
machines (VMs). KVM is part of Linux.
Basically, KVM is a type-2 hypervisor (installed on top of another OS, in this case
some flavor of Linux). It runs, however, like a type-1 hypervisor and can provide the
power and functionality of even the most complex and powerful type-1 hypervisors,
depending on the tools that are used with the KVM package itself.
Output:-
1) Installation of KVM:-
2) Start the Virtual Machine.

3) After Starting of Virtual Machine

Conclusion:- Thus we studied and learned how to create virtual machine


and run the virtual machine using KVM Hypervisor.

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