wiki/virt.md

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Virtualization for the rest of us		true	2022-01-17T20:22:45.845Z		markdown	2021-11-13T12:08:53.048Z

On KVM virtualization

In this section, the focus is on KVM virtualization, and its associated tools, including QEMU, the Linux Kernel, libvirt, etc., mostly in the context of Phyllome OS.

Guests

This idea of this section is to provide a reference for guest operating systems used in virtual machines

• Guests support matrix

Unix-based

• Linux family
• BSD family
• OpenSolaris and derivatives
• Darwin and derivatives

Windows NT

• Windows family
• ReactOS

Independent

• Sculpt OS
• Fuchsia OS

The host

• Linux Kernel modules related to virtualization
• Virtualization-related paths on Phyllome OS
• XML commented
• GPU virtualization

Virtual hardware

• Anatomy of a virtual machine
  • Architecture
  • Chipset
  • Firmware
  • CPU
  • Memory
  • Storage
  • Network
  • Display
• Paravirtualized hardware (virtio)

Resources

• A very short history of virtualization
• Lexicon
• External resources

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