kvm

Kernel-based Virtual Machine

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is virtualization software for Linux. It was originally developed to leverage the hardware virtualization extensions provided by Intel VT and AMD-V technologies. Since then, a few other platforms have also included support for KVM virtualization. Since the qemu package now supports kvm, this package includes only left-overs from the former kvm package that for various reasons do not make sense to be placed in the qemu package.