From: jpstewart@personalprojects.net   
      
   On 2026-02-22 1:49 p.m., rbowman wrote:   
   > On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:42:43 -0500, c186282 wrote:   
   >   
   >>    I know VirtualBox better than KVM at this point,   
   >>    and the repos no longer have KVM as a distinct thing to install.   
   >   
   > They don't have kvm as a distinct thing because it's baked into the   
   > kernel.   
   >   
   > KVM --  Kernel-based Virtualization Machine   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine   
      
   Plus, KVM is just the backend kernel part of virtualization.   
   Previously, Debian had a qemu-kvm package that used the KVM kernel   
   module to provide hardware virtualization services for QEMU.  That's now   
   been replaced by the qemu-system-x86 package, the description of which   
   ends with:   
      
   "On x86 host hardware this package also enables KVM kernel virtual   
   machine usage on systems which support it."   
      
   The previous poster's link to Wikipedia explains:   
      
   "KVM itself emulates very little hardware, instead deferring to a higher   
   level client application such as QEMU, crosvm, or Firecracker for device   
   emulation."   
      
   Then, as has been mentioned elsewhere, virt-manager provides a nicer   
   user interface to the QEMU/KVM combo.   
      
   So KVM isn't something that users install, configure, and use directly.   
   It's the hardware driver at the bottom layer of a whole stack of stuff.   
      
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