KVM
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What is KVM?
KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It allows you to run multiple virtual machines (VMs) with unmodified Linux or Windows images. Each VM has private virtualized hardware: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc.
What other technologies are related to KVM?
KVM Competitor Technologies
Xen
Xen is a hypervisor, similar to KVM, and provides virtualization capabilities. It competes directly with KVM for virtual machine hosting.
VMware
VMware offers a suite of virtualization products like ESXi and vSphere, competing directly with KVM for server virtualization.
Hyper-V
Hyper-V is Microsoft's hypervisor, and a direct competitor to KVM. It offers similar virtualization capabilities.
LXC
LXC (Linux Containers) is a containerization technology, and while not direct hardware virtualization, it provides OS-level virtualization which is an alternative to KVM's full virtualization.
OpenVZ
OpenVZ is another containerization technology. It is another OS-level virtualization alternative to KVM.
RHEV
RHEV (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization) is Red Hat's virtualization platform, which uses KVM as its core hypervisor. Although based on KVM, it competes with standalone KVM setups by offering a complete virtualization management solution.
Proxmox
Proxmox Virtual Environment is a virtualization platform that uses KVM and LXC. It provides a web-based interface for managing virtual machines and containers, competing with standalone KVM setups.
VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a desktop virtualization software. It competes with KVM, although it's typically used for desktop environments rather than server environments.
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KVM Complementary Technologies
QEMU
QEMU often works together with KVM. KVM provides the kernel-level virtualization infrastructure, while QEMU emulates the hardware. It is strongly complementary to KVM.
libvirt
Libvirt is a virtualization management API, daemon and management tool. It's commonly used to manage KVM virtual machines. It provides a common interface to manage VMs across different hypervisors, but is heavily used with KVM.
OpenStack
OpenStack is a cloud operating system that can use KVM as a hypervisor. OpenStack provides the management layer for KVM-based infrastructure, so they are complementary.
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Which job functions commonly mention KVM?
DevOps Engineer
0.7% of all DevOps Engineer jobs mention KVM
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Systems Engineer
0.4% of all Systems Engineer jobs mention KVM
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Software Engineer
0.2% of all Software Engineer jobs mention KVM
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Engineer
0.1% of all Engineer jobs mention KVM
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Engineering & R&D
0.1% of all Engineering & R&D jobs mention KVM
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