Migrating just a couple of virtual machines from other virtualization platforms to KVM is easy. Virtualbox uses the Virtual Disk Image (.vdi) format. You can clone the vdi image to a RAW image format using vboxmanage. This way you will not alter your original virtual image file. Then QEMU provides the necessary tools to convert the RAW image…
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KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko. QEMU’s system emulation provides a virtual model of a machine (CPU, memory…
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