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Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> writes: > The following patchset adds a driver for Intel's hardware virtualization > extensions to the x86 architecture. The driver adds a character device > (/dev/kvm) that exposes the virtualization capabilities to userspace. Using > this driver, a process can run a virtual machine (a "guest") in a fully > virtualized PC containing its own virtual hard disks, network adapters, and > display. > > Using this driver, one can start multiple virtual machines on a host. Each > virtual machine is a process on the host; a virtual cpu is a thread in that > process. kill(1), nice(1), top(1) work as expected. Where is the user space for this? Is it free? I suppose you need a device model. Do you use qemu's? -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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