Documents

Documents

User/Admin documentation

• HOWTO
• QEMU user manual
• Tuning_KVM

Presentations

• Presentations on many aspects of KVM were made at KvmForum2007 (Aug 2007).
• Presentations from the KvmForum2008 (June 2008)
• Avi Kivity's presentation from the Ottawa Linux Symposium 2007 (Jun 2007).
• TPR patching [attachment:kvm-tpr-patching.odp overview] (Avi Kivity, Oct 2008)
• Virtio code walkthrough, notes, GSO background (Mark McLoughlin, Oct 2008), and ACM pdf about virtio by Rusty Russell

White papers:

• Qumranet's KVM Whitepaper

Books

• Book "QEMU & KVM", ISBN 978-3-8370-0876-0

Magazine Articles

• Linux Magazine
• KVM for Embedded at Linux Planet
• Linux as a hypervisor at Lunux Planet

Benchmarks

• Phoronix - Ubuntu 8.04 KVM Benchmarks
• Phoronix - Intel Core i7 Virtualization Performance

Documentation

• small look inside(kvm-54)
• qemu kvm buildup
• qemu-system-x86_64 startup (kvm-57)
• initialization (kvm-57)
• file layout in kernel (~kvm-58)
• Wikibook "QEMU & KVM"
• How KVM deals with memory - a look inside how KVM interacts with the Linux VM.
• Counting and tracing KVM events

KVM Doxygen Documentation

• kvm doxygen documentation tool

Tools

• Tools

Supported cpus

• cpus