In addition, Red Hat also offers special virtualization systems and thus competes directly with VMware with KVM.

Its distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux has relied fully on KVM for virtualization since version 6, which replaces Xen. KVM finds its biggest supporter in Red Hat. whenever several Linux server distributions have to be run on a single physical computer. It is mainly used for server virtualization, i.e. Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) is a default virtualization system for Linux. Since Ubuntu 8.04, KVM has been Ubuntu’s officially supported (and preferred in the server space) virtualization solution. The company was acquired by the American Linux distributor Red Hat in September 2008.

KVM is developed by the Israeli company Qumranet. Since version 2.6.20 of the Linux kernel, the kernel module of KVM is already included in Linux. It was presented to the public in October 2006.

KVM, Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a virtualization technique for Linux on x86 hardware. Learn the steps to install KVM on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server Focal Fossa to easily create a virtual machine using a command line or graphical user interface called Virt-manager.

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