Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)
Kernel-based Virtual Machine is an open source hypervisor solution (http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page) for Linux that supports x86, PowerPC, and S390 CPU architecture that contains virtualization extensions. KVM uses the hardware virtualization support of these processors and effectively turns your Linux kernel into a bare metal hypervisor. It supports a mixed workload of various guest operating systems that run your applications on Linux and Windows in order to host critical and noncritical applications. Many current Linux distributions ship KVM and the Red-Hat-included KVM hypervisor technology in a release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 5 update 4 and its later release.
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