KVM Features

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
• 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 -