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Linux Kernel to Include KVM Virtualization
It looks like the newest version of the Linux kernel (2.6.20) will include KVM, the relatively new virtualization environment. From the article: "Thanks to its approach KVM already runs in the current kernel, without any extensive bouts of patching and compiling being required, after the fairly simple compilation of a module. Virtual machines that run unmodified operating systems are meant to appear in the host as a simple process and work independently of the host kernel. In a fashion comparable to that of Xen a modified QEMU is used for the supportive emulation of typical PC components of the virtual machines."
First there was KVM switches and then there was the Java KVM (kilobyte VM).
Now there's the linux KVM which has nothing to do with either those or the Kernel VM rewrites of the linux past.
Leave that acronym alone !
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
Yes, it needs processor with Intel VT-x (Vanderpool) or AMD SVM (Pacifica). So Pentium 4/D (available since 2005), most of Core Duos, Core 2 or AMD CPUs sold since August this year (Socket F/1207 and AM2) qualify.
:wq