• thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Technically no, both use kvm virtualization which is included in the Linux kernal, so both are “bare metal hypervisors” other wise know as class 1 hypervisors. Distinctions can be confusing 😂

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      7 months ago

      Oh dear… I really thought I understood what bare metal means… But looks like this is beyond my tech comprehension

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        7 months ago

        Bare metal is “kernel running on hardware” I think. KVM is a kernel feature, so the virtualization is done in kernel space (?) and on the hardware.

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          7 months ago

          Well this can be a starting point of a rabbit hole. Time to spend hours reading stuff that I don’t really understand.

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            7 months ago

            TL;DR: use what is in the kernel, without strange out of tree kernel modules like for VirtualBox, and use KVM, i.e. on fedora virt-manager qemu qemu-kvm