Summary

In this chapter, you have learned about Linux virtualization, its advantages, and different types of virtualization methods. We also discussed the types of hypervisor and then went through the high-level architecture of Xen and KVM, and popular open source Linux virtualization technologies.

In the next chapter, we will discuss the internal workings of libvirt, qemu, and KVM, and will gain knowledge of how these components talk to each other to achieve virtualization.