Status

• Currently, KVM is stable and fast for most workloads.

KVM is included in the mainline linux kernel since 2.6.20.

It is also available as a patch for recent Linux kernel versions and as an external module that can be used with your favorite distro- provided kernel.

Working:

• Intel-based hosts (requires VT capable processors)
• AMD-based hosts (requires SVM capable processors)
• Linux guests (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows guests (32-bit and 64-bit)
• FreeBSD guests (32-bit and 64-bit)
• SMP hosts
• SMP guests (as of kvm-61, max 16 cpu supported)
• Live migration of guests from one machine to another

• See the Guest Support Status page for more guest operating systems

• See the Host Support Status page for information on host hardware.

• Guest swapping

In progress:

• Paravirtualized networking

• Paravirtualized block device

• PowerPC port -- see CategoryPowerPC

• IA64 port -- see Category_ia64

• Run x86 xen guest (domU) kernels, see http://kraxel.fedorapeople.org/xenner/

See also the Features and Roadmap pages for more details.

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