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Bug#398458: ITP: kvm -- full virtualization on x86 hardware



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Baruch Even <baruch@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : kvm
  Version         : 0.0.2
  Upstream Author : Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
* URL             : http://kvm.sourceforge.net/
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : full virtualization on x86 hardware

KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for
Linux on x86 hardware. It consists of a loadable kernel module (kvm.ko) and a
userspace component.

Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or
Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware: a
network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc. 



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