{"id":2669,"date":"2014-07-17T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T09:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bachi.net\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2020-03-29T10:08:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T10:08:58","slug":"kvm-vs-ioctl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bachi.net\/?p=2669","title":{"rendered":"Linux KVM vs. ioctl"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Linux KVM<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linux-kvm.org\/page\/Main_Page\">Kernel Virtual Machine<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linux-kvm.org\/page\/Documents\">KVM Documents<\/a><br \/>\nKVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko.<\/p>\n<p>Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc.<\/p>\n<h4>Kernel<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kernel.org\/doc\/Documentation\/virtual\/kvm\/api.txt\">The Definitive KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) API Documentation<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lxr.free-electrons.com\/source\/Documentation\/kvm\/api.txt?v=2.6.32\"> The Definitive KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) API Documentation<\/a> (broken link)<\/p>\n<p>The kvm API is a set of ioctls that are issued to control various aspects of a virtual machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux KVM Kernel Virtual Machine KVM Documents KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko. Using KVM, one can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bachi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bachi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bachi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bachi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bachi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bachi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10794,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bachi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions\/10794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bachi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bachi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bachi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}