Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Difference Between KVM and Qemu

KVM is a module of kernel mainly known as Kernel-based Virtual Machine. It acts as a software or simulator on which guest operating system (virtual machines) runs. Qemu is basically acts as a communicator between hardware and kvm, hardware assisted virtualization are done with the help of qemu.
Qemu is a generic open source machine emulator and virtualizer. Whereas KVM is a virtualization infrastructure of linux kernel, that turns it into a hypervisor.


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