Virtualization Systems — KVM

The canonical Type-2/hosted hypervisor: a Linux kernel module exposing the /dev/kvm ioctl ABI to userspace VMMs (QEMU, Firecracker, crosvm, cloud-hypervisor). The hosted shape pushed to its production conclusion — thin kernel hot path, everything else in userspace.

2026-06-27 · 38 min · Anekoique