What's the differences between Xen, QEMU and KVM?
问题 I know QEMU is used by Xen, and KVM is a fork of QEMU. So, KVM includes that Xen adds to QEMU ? What is the name ? Thanks 回答1: QEMU is a powerful emulator, which means that it can emulate a variety of processor types. Xen uses QEMU for HVM guests, more specifically for the HVM guest's device model. The Xen-specific QEMU is called qemu-dm (short for QEMU device model) QEMU uses emulation; KVM uses processor extensions (HVM) for virtualization. Both Xen and KVM merge their various functionality