kvm: KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) kvm: KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing kvm: virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kvm: kernel module, and a modified version of QEMU. kvm: kvm: Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux kvm: or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware: kvm: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc. kvm: kvm: This package only contains the modified QEMU; the kernel module are kvm: included with recent kernels.