Vmware Player and VirtualBox are popular ways to run virtual machines on Linux however they are Type-2 Virtualizaer which uses OS to communicate kerne

How to install KVM and Virt-Manager on Rocky Linux 8

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Vmware Player and VirtualBox are popular ways to run virtual machines on Linux however they are Type-2 Virtualizaer which uses OS to communicate kernel. Whereas to get almost native speed, we can use Linux KVM stands for Kernel-based Virtual Machine. The KVM kernel module has been included in Linux since version 2.6.20 of the Linux kernel.

Let’s see the steps to install KVM on Rocky Linux, CentOS, or AlmaLinux 8 and Virt Manager a GUI to manage virtual machines running on it.

Most of the modern CPUs come with Virtualization support and the same is also enabled to use in the Motherboard BIOS. Hence to ensure that let’s run a command on the terminal.

The packages to install the Kernel Virtualization machine on Rocky Linux is available in its official repository thus we don’t need to add any third-party repo to it. Simply run the below command and it will be on your system along with other KVM management tools.

Although we can use a Graphical user interface to easily create virtual machines, we learn that later. Here let’s see the commands that we can use to create VM using our terminal.