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kvm

NAME

kvm - x86 emulator with CPU VT support

SYNOPSIS

kvm [options][disk_image]

OPTIONS

-h

Print a summary of all options.

-no-kvm

Disable KVM hardware virtualization.

All other options

The other options are similar to those of qemu.

DESCRIPTION

kvm is based on qemu and its parameters are the same with the above additions, please see the kvm-qemu(1) manpage for instructions on how to run the program.

SETTING UP THE NETWORK

In Debian, kvm uses the configuration script /etc/kvm/kvm-ifup to initialize the network for the virtual machine on the host side when starting a virtual machine. The default script sets up a virtual switch, so the guest appears to be on the same subnet as the host, which greatly simplifies setting up networking in the guest operating system. For example, if the IP adress of the host is 192.168.1.1, the guest could use 192.168.1.2, with a netmask of 255.255.255.0.

To learn more about setting up the network, please refer to the following documents:

QEMU Documentation at

http://qemu.org/user-doc.html

Linux Networking-concepts at

http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO/networking-concepts-HOWTO.html

Linux Networking HOWTO at

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NET3-4-HOWTO.html

Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO at

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/index.html

FILES

 /etc/kvm/kvm-ifup, called at startup to configure the host-side network
 /usr/share/kvm/, BIOS files are by default loaded from this directory
 /usr/share/kvm/keymaps, keymap files
 
 

 

SEE ALSO

kvm-qemu(1), kvm-img(1).

AUTHOR

KVM was written by Avi Kivity from Qumranet.

This manual page was written by Baruch Even <baruch@debian.org> and Leonard Norrgard <vinsci@refactor.fi> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).