KVM and VirtualBox together or??

[slmeyer]

Now that KVM is in the kernel - what does that mean for VirtualBox?
Can virtualBox use KVM?
Can they coexist or are they in each others way?
I have tried googling around but not found any direct info on this

Any experiences with that?

[WarraWarra]

This is what I found:

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KVM: Kernel-based Virtual Machine for Linux

KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware. It consists of a loadable kernel module (kvm.ko) and a userspace component.

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.

The kernel component of KVM is included in mainline Linux, and will appear in Linux 2.6.20.

KVM is open source software.


http://kerneltrap.org/node/7545
http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/

Think this last link has some good info.

I do not get the unmodified linux or windows ? does not make sense as surely it has to be implemented somehow , unless they mean to say you can run it on XEN but then XEN is a virtual machine in it's own then KVM has no use if you have ot load a virtual software manager thingy.

It would make sense if virtual software does run better becuase of this or more stable ?

Hope this helps.

[wolfden]

You can have several VMs installed on one machine. I've done, KVM, VB and vmserver all on one box.