KVM Features
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KVM-Features
This is a possibly incomplete list of KVM features, together with their status. Feel free to update any of them as you see fit.
As a guideline, there is a feature description template in here
- QMP - Qemu Monitor Protocol
- KSM - Kernel Samepage Merging
- Kvm Paravirtual Clock - A Paravirtual timesource for KVM
- CPU Hotplug support - Adding cpus on the fly
- PCI Hotplug support - Adding pci devices on the fly
- vmchannel - Communication channel between the host and guests
- migration - Migrating Virtual Machines
- Nested Guests - Running virtual machines within virtual machines
- vhost -
- SCSI disk emulation -
- Virtio Devices -
- CPU clustering -
- hpet -
- Device assignment -
- pxe boot -
- iscsi boot -
- x2apic -
- Floppy -
- CDROM -
- USB -
- USB host device passthrough -
- Sound -
- Userspace irqchip emulation -
- Userspace pit emulation -
- Balloon memory driver -
- Large pages support -
- Stable Guest ABI -