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KVM is implemented as a number of kernel modules, kvm and an architecture-specific module (kvm-amd for AMD, kvm-intel for Intel). QEMU is a user-space application which can use KVM if it’s available but doesn’t need it.



VirtualBox also has several kernel modules, the main one of which is vboxdrv. This handles ring 0 duties for VirtualBox.



The two sets of kernel modules are similar but not identical, i.e. their features don’t overlap exactly. The virtualisation details in both setups are quite different.



(If you look through VirtualBox you’ll find references to KVM, but it doesn’t use KVM. It contains some source code referencing KVM, because it includes QEMU’s recompiler, but the KVM support is explicitly disabled. It also provides a KVM-compatible paravirtualisation interface for guests. You must take care never to use different virtual machine hosts with hardware acceleration in parallel, because they are liable to walk over each other and potentially crash the host — so you can run multiple VMs with QEMU and KVM, but don’t try running VMs with QEMU/KVM and VirtualBox simultaneously.)






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  • Thanks. How do I know if I run a KVM (or Virtualbox) VM with hardware acceraltion or not?

    – Tim
    yesterday











  • Is QEMU really a user space process instead of a kernel module? unix.stackexchange.com/a/506417/674 says "Qemu is the lowest level that emulates processor and peripherals" and "KVM is to accelerate it if CPU has VT enabled", so I thought both QEMU and KVM are kernel modules.

    – Tim
    yesterday












  • Is it correct that libvirt is a server process, and VMM a client process? Is QEMU also a server to VMM? What is the relation and difference between QEMU and libvirt processes? Do all the four components communicate by KVM <->QEMU <-> libvirt <-> VMM?

    – Tim
    yesterday












  • What’s the point in repeating your comment on different questions? This question has nothing to do with VMM and libvirt.

    – Stephen Kitt
    yesterday











  • If you use KVM, you’ve got hardware acceleration (so with QEMU, qemu-kvm or the KVM “enable” option). I don’t know the equivalent in VirtualBox off-hand.

    – Stephen Kitt
    yesterday










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KVM is implemented as a number of kernel modules, kvm and an architecture-specific module (kvm-amd for AMD, kvm-intel for Intel). QEMU is a user-space application which can use KVM if it’s available but doesn’t need it.



VirtualBox also has several kernel modules, the main one of which is vboxdrv. This handles ring 0 duties for VirtualBox.



The two sets of kernel modules are similar but not identical, i.e. their features don’t overlap exactly. The virtualisation details in both setups are quite different.



(If you look through VirtualBox you’ll find references to KVM, but it doesn’t use KVM. It contains some source code referencing KVM, because it includes QEMU’s recompiler, but the KVM support is explicitly disabled. It also provides a KVM-compatible paravirtualisation interface for guests. You must take care never to use different virtual machine hosts with hardware acceleration in parallel, because they are liable to walk over each other and potentially crash the host — so you can run multiple VMs with QEMU and KVM, but don’t try running VMs with QEMU/KVM and VirtualBox simultaneously.)






share|improve this answer

























  • Thanks. How do I know if I run a KVM (or Virtualbox) VM with hardware acceraltion or not?

    – Tim
    yesterday











  • Is QEMU really a user space process instead of a kernel module? unix.stackexchange.com/a/506417/674 says "Qemu is the lowest level that emulates processor and peripherals" and "KVM is to accelerate it if CPU has VT enabled", so I thought both QEMU and KVM are kernel modules.

    – Tim
    yesterday












  • Is it correct that libvirt is a server process, and VMM a client process? Is QEMU also a server to VMM? What is the relation and difference between QEMU and libvirt processes? Do all the four components communicate by KVM <->QEMU <-> libvirt <-> VMM?

    – Tim
    yesterday












  • What’s the point in repeating your comment on different questions? This question has nothing to do with VMM and libvirt.

    – Stephen Kitt
    yesterday











  • If you use KVM, you’ve got hardware acceleration (so with QEMU, qemu-kvm or the KVM “enable” option). I don’t know the equivalent in VirtualBox off-hand.

    – Stephen Kitt
    yesterday















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KVM is implemented as a number of kernel modules, kvm and an architecture-specific module (kvm-amd for AMD, kvm-intel for Intel). QEMU is a user-space application which can use KVM if it’s available but doesn’t need it.



VirtualBox also has several kernel modules, the main one of which is vboxdrv. This handles ring 0 duties for VirtualBox.



The two sets of kernel modules are similar but not identical, i.e. their features don’t overlap exactly. The virtualisation details in both setups are quite different.



(If you look through VirtualBox you’ll find references to KVM, but it doesn’t use KVM. It contains some source code referencing KVM, because it includes QEMU’s recompiler, but the KVM support is explicitly disabled. It also provides a KVM-compatible paravirtualisation interface for guests. You must take care never to use different virtual machine hosts with hardware acceleration in parallel, because they are liable to walk over each other and potentially crash the host — so you can run multiple VMs with QEMU and KVM, but don’t try running VMs with QEMU/KVM and VirtualBox simultaneously.)






share|improve this answer

























  • Thanks. How do I know if I run a KVM (or Virtualbox) VM with hardware acceraltion or not?

    – Tim
    yesterday











  • Is QEMU really a user space process instead of a kernel module? unix.stackexchange.com/a/506417/674 says "Qemu is the lowest level that emulates processor and peripherals" and "KVM is to accelerate it if CPU has VT enabled", so I thought both QEMU and KVM are kernel modules.

    – Tim
    yesterday












  • Is it correct that libvirt is a server process, and VMM a client process? Is QEMU also a server to VMM? What is the relation and difference between QEMU and libvirt processes? Do all the four components communicate by KVM <->QEMU <-> libvirt <-> VMM?

    – Tim
    yesterday












  • What’s the point in repeating your comment on different questions? This question has nothing to do with VMM and libvirt.

    – Stephen Kitt
    yesterday











  • If you use KVM, you’ve got hardware acceleration (so with QEMU, qemu-kvm or the KVM “enable” option). I don’t know the equivalent in VirtualBox off-hand.

    – Stephen Kitt
    yesterday













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KVM is implemented as a number of kernel modules, kvm and an architecture-specific module (kvm-amd for AMD, kvm-intel for Intel). QEMU is a user-space application which can use KVM if it’s available but doesn’t need it.



VirtualBox also has several kernel modules, the main one of which is vboxdrv. This handles ring 0 duties for VirtualBox.



The two sets of kernel modules are similar but not identical, i.e. their features don’t overlap exactly. The virtualisation details in both setups are quite different.



(If you look through VirtualBox you’ll find references to KVM, but it doesn’t use KVM. It contains some source code referencing KVM, because it includes QEMU’s recompiler, but the KVM support is explicitly disabled. It also provides a KVM-compatible paravirtualisation interface for guests. You must take care never to use different virtual machine hosts with hardware acceleration in parallel, because they are liable to walk over each other and potentially crash the host — so you can run multiple VMs with QEMU and KVM, but don’t try running VMs with QEMU/KVM and VirtualBox simultaneously.)






share|improve this answer















KVM is implemented as a number of kernel modules, kvm and an architecture-specific module (kvm-amd for AMD, kvm-intel for Intel). QEMU is a user-space application which can use KVM if it’s available but doesn’t need it.



VirtualBox also has several kernel modules, the main one of which is vboxdrv. This handles ring 0 duties for VirtualBox.



The two sets of kernel modules are similar but not identical, i.e. their features don’t overlap exactly. The virtualisation details in both setups are quite different.



(If you look through VirtualBox you’ll find references to KVM, but it doesn’t use KVM. It contains some source code referencing KVM, because it includes QEMU’s recompiler, but the KVM support is explicitly disabled. It also provides a KVM-compatible paravirtualisation interface for guests. You must take care never to use different virtual machine hosts with hardware acceleration in parallel, because they are liable to walk over each other and potentially crash the host — so you can run multiple VMs with QEMU and KVM, but don’t try running VMs with QEMU/KVM and VirtualBox simultaneously.)







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  • Thanks. How do I know if I run a KVM (or Virtualbox) VM with hardware acceraltion or not?

    – Tim
    yesterday











  • Is QEMU really a user space process instead of a kernel module? unix.stackexchange.com/a/506417/674 says "Qemu is the lowest level that emulates processor and peripherals" and "KVM is to accelerate it if CPU has VT enabled", so I thought both QEMU and KVM are kernel modules.

    – Tim
    yesterday












  • Is it correct that libvirt is a server process, and VMM a client process? Is QEMU also a server to VMM? What is the relation and difference between QEMU and libvirt processes? Do all the four components communicate by KVM <->QEMU <-> libvirt <-> VMM?

    – Tim
    yesterday












  • What’s the point in repeating your comment on different questions? This question has nothing to do with VMM and libvirt.

    – Stephen Kitt
    yesterday











  • If you use KVM, you’ve got hardware acceleration (so with QEMU, qemu-kvm or the KVM “enable” option). I don’t know the equivalent in VirtualBox off-hand.

    – Stephen Kitt
    yesterday

















  • Thanks. How do I know if I run a KVM (or Virtualbox) VM with hardware acceraltion or not?

    – Tim
    yesterday











  • Is QEMU really a user space process instead of a kernel module? unix.stackexchange.com/a/506417/674 says "Qemu is the lowest level that emulates processor and peripherals" and "KVM is to accelerate it if CPU has VT enabled", so I thought both QEMU and KVM are kernel modules.

    – Tim
    yesterday












  • Is it correct that libvirt is a server process, and VMM a client process? Is QEMU also a server to VMM? What is the relation and difference between QEMU and libvirt processes? Do all the four components communicate by KVM <->QEMU <-> libvirt <-> VMM?

    – Tim
    yesterday












  • What’s the point in repeating your comment on different questions? This question has nothing to do with VMM and libvirt.

    – Stephen Kitt
    yesterday











  • If you use KVM, you’ve got hardware acceleration (so with QEMU, qemu-kvm or the KVM “enable” option). I don’t know the equivalent in VirtualBox off-hand.

    – Stephen Kitt
    yesterday
















Thanks. How do I know if I run a KVM (or Virtualbox) VM with hardware acceraltion or not?

– Tim
yesterday





Thanks. How do I know if I run a KVM (or Virtualbox) VM with hardware acceraltion or not?

– Tim
yesterday













Is QEMU really a user space process instead of a kernel module? unix.stackexchange.com/a/506417/674 says "Qemu is the lowest level that emulates processor and peripherals" and "KVM is to accelerate it if CPU has VT enabled", so I thought both QEMU and KVM are kernel modules.

– Tim
yesterday






Is QEMU really a user space process instead of a kernel module? unix.stackexchange.com/a/506417/674 says "Qemu is the lowest level that emulates processor and peripherals" and "KVM is to accelerate it if CPU has VT enabled", so I thought both QEMU and KVM are kernel modules.

– Tim
yesterday














Is it correct that libvirt is a server process, and VMM a client process? Is QEMU also a server to VMM? What is the relation and difference between QEMU and libvirt processes? Do all the four components communicate by KVM <->QEMU <-> libvirt <-> VMM?

– Tim
yesterday






Is it correct that libvirt is a server process, and VMM a client process? Is QEMU also a server to VMM? What is the relation and difference between QEMU and libvirt processes? Do all the four components communicate by KVM <->QEMU <-> libvirt <-> VMM?

– Tim
yesterday














What’s the point in repeating your comment on different questions? This question has nothing to do with VMM and libvirt.

– Stephen Kitt
yesterday





What’s the point in repeating your comment on different questions? This question has nothing to do with VMM and libvirt.

– Stephen Kitt
yesterday













If you use KVM, you’ve got hardware acceleration (so with QEMU, qemu-kvm or the KVM “enable” option). I don’t know the equivalent in VirtualBox off-hand.

– Stephen Kitt
yesterday





If you use KVM, you’ve got hardware acceleration (so with QEMU, qemu-kvm or the KVM “enable” option). I don’t know the equivalent in VirtualBox off-hand.

– Stephen Kitt
yesterday

















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