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The **Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)** is a full virtualization solution for for Enterprise Linux distributions. KVM is known as the *de facto* open source virtualization mechanism. It is currently used by many software companies.
xCAT supports the following virtualization infrastructures:
**Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)**:
A full virtualization solution for Enterprise Linux distributions, known as the *de facto* open source virtualization mechanism and currently used by many software companies.
**IBM PowerKVM** is a product that leverages the Power resilience and performance with the openness of KVM, which provides several advantages:
**IBM PowerKVM**:
A product that leverages the Power resilience and performance with the openness of KVM, which provides several advantages:
* Higher workload consolidation with processors overcommitment and memory sharing
* Dynamic addition and removal of virtual devices
* Microthreading scheduling granularity
* Integration with **IBM PowerVC** and **OpenStack**
* Simplified management using open source software
* Avoids vendor lock-in
* Uses POWER8 hardware features, such as SMT8 and microthreading
* Higher workload consolidation with processors overcommitment and memory sharing
* Dynamic addition and removal of virtual devices
* Microthreading scheduling granularity
* Integration with **IBM PowerVC** and **OpenStack**
* Simplified management using open source software
* Avoids vendor lock-in
* Uses POWER8 hardware features, such as SMT8 and microthreading
The xCAT based KVM solution offers users the ability to:
* provision the hypervisor on bare metal nodes
* provision virtual machines
* provision virtual machines with the any OS supported in xCAT
* migrate virtual machines to different hosts
* install all versions of Linux supported in the standard xCAT provisioning methods (you can install stateless virtual machines, iSCSI, and scripted install virtual machines)
* install copy on write instances of virtual machines
* copy virtual machines
* clone virtual machines
This section introduces the steps of management node preparation, KVM hypervisor setup and virtual machine management, and presents some typical problems and solutions on xCAT kvm support.