aws kvm_AWS宣布从Xen转向KVM。 那么什么是KVM？

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Tied up in a AWS announcement about a new EC2 high-end instance type (the C5) is a strong suggestion that Amazon’s cloud computing giant has begun to shift its hundreds of thousands of physical servers away from the open source Xen hypervisor that’s run them until now, to the open source alternative, KVM.

在有关新的EC2高端实例类型(C5)的AWS公告中， 强烈暗示着亚马逊的云计算巨头已经开始将其成千上万的物理服务器从运行它们的开源Xen虚拟机管理程序中转移出来。现在，使用开源替代方案KVM。

Whether you’ve got your career and/or home mortgage deeply invested in the future of Xen or whether you never knew it existed, you might be interested in learning more about KVM. So here’s a general introduction adapted from my book, Teach Yourself Linux Virtualization and High Availability: prepare for the LPIC-3 304 certification exam.

无论您是在Xen的未来上投入了职业和/或房屋抵押贷款，还是不知道Xen的存在，您可能都有兴趣了解有关KVM的更多信息。 因此，这是从我的书“ 自学 Linux虚拟化和高可用性”改编而来的一般介绍：为LPIC-3 304认证考试做准备 。

Need some more basic background on either Linux servers or AWS? My Linux in Action and Learn Amazon Web Services in a Month of Lunches books from Manning might help, along with my Linux server administration courses at Pluralsight. There’s also a hybrid course called Linux in Motion that’s made up of more than two hours of video and around 40% of the text of Linux in Action.

需要有关Linux服务器或AWS的更多基础知识吗？ 我在 Manning上的一个月的午餐中使用 Linux并学习Amazon Web Services可能与我在Pluralsight上的Linux服务器管理课程一起提供帮助。 还有一门名为Linux in Motion的混合课程，由两个多小时的视频和大约40％的Linux in Action文本组成。

虚拟机 (KVM)

Like Xen, KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is an open source hypervisor technology for virtualizing compute infrastructure running on x86 compatible hardware. Also like Xen, KVM has both an active user community and significant enterprise deployments.

与Xen一样，KVM(基于内核的虚拟机)是一种开源虚拟机监控程序技术，用于虚拟化在x86兼容硬件上运行的计算基础架构。 与Xen一样，KVM具有活跃的用户社区和重要的企业部署。

A KVM host actually runs on the Linux kernel along with two KVM kernel modules (the kvm.ko module and either kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko). Through its tight kernel integration — including the I/O connectivity with kernel block and network drivers provided by Virtio — KVM can offer its guests more seamless access