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Full virtualization on x86 hardware

Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual PC:s, each running unmodified Linux or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc.

KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux hosts on x86 hardware with x86 guests. KVM is intended for systems where the processor has hardware support for virtualization, see below for details. All combinations of 32-bit and 64-bit host and guest systems are supported, except 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts.

For the best performance the processor must support hardware virtualization, provided by AMD's SVM capability and Intel's VT. To find out if your processor has the necessary support, do as follows:

* Make sure you run Linux 2.6.16 or newer for AMD processors, or Linux 2.6.15 for Intel processors. Older Linux versions do not report the virtualization capabilities.

* Run this command in a shell: egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

If it prints anything, the processor provides hardware virtualization support and is suitable for use with KVM.

Without hardware support, KVM falls back to the considerably slower QEMU-based software virtualization. In this case, it makes more sense to use the qemu package, possibly with the kqemu package for better performance.

The recommended qemu package contains the the qemu-img program needed to create virtual disk images as well as the script /usr/sbin/qemu-make-debian-root, which uses debootstrap to build a debian disk image. See the man page for qemu-make-debian-root. The suggested hal package is only used for automatically reporting the system bios version and computer model when reporting bugs. The suggested etherboot package contains Etherboot ROM images for, among others, the NE2000, PCNET and RTL8139 ethernet cards emulated (see appendix A. List of supported NICs in the package etherboot-doc).

KVM consists of two loadable kernel modules (kvm.ko and kvm-amd.ko or kvm-intel.ko) and a userspace component. This package contains the userspace component, while kvm-source provides the module source. 

 Homepage: http://kvm.sourceforge.net/

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  • dep: adduser
    Ajoute et supprime des usagers ou des groupes
  • dep: bridge-utils
    Utilities for configuring the Linux ethernet bridge
  • dep: iproute
    Outils professionnels pour contrôler le réseau dans les noyaux Linux
  • dep: libasound2 (>> 1.0.12)
    Bibliothèque ALSA
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1) [amd64]
    bibliothèque C GNU : bibliothèques partagées
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) [i386]
  • dep: libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.10-1)
    Simple DirectMedia Layer
  • dep: libuuid1
    Bibliothèque d'identifiants universellement uniques
    also a virtual package provided by libuuid1-udeb
  • dep: zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
    Bibliothèque de compression - binaires
    also a virtual package provided by zlib1g-udeb
  • sug: debootstrap
    Installation d'un système Debian de base
  • sug: etherboot
    Programme d'amorçage pour divers adaptateurs réseaux
  • sug: hal
    Couche d'abstraction du matériel
  • sug: sudo
    Fournit des privilèges de super-utilisateurs à des clients spécifiques
    also a virtual package provided by sudo-ldap

Télécharger kvm

Télécharger pour toutes les architectures proposées
Architecture Taille du paquet Espace occupé Fichiers
amd64 585.8 ko1820 ko [liste des fichiers]
i386 494.2 ko1500 ko [liste des fichiers]