25. Installing KVM Virtualization on Ubuntu
Earlier versions of Ubuntu provided two virtualization platforms in the form of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and Xen. In recent releases, support for Xen has been removed leaving KVM as the only bundled virtualization option supplied with Ubuntu. In addition to KVM, third party solutions are available in the form of products such as VMware and Oracle VirtualBox. Since KVM is supplied with Ubuntu, however, this is the virtualization solution that will be covered in this and subsequent chapters.
Before plunging into installing and running KVM it is worth taking a little time to talk about how it fits into the various types of virtualization outlined in the previous chapter.
