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The Kernel Based Virtual Machive (KVM) is an open-source Type2 hypervisor which converts Linux kernel into a hypervisor. We typically have two main parts in the KVM hypervisor: KVM kernel module and KVM user-space tool. The KVM kernel module is a loadable Linux kernel module which provides CPU, memory and interrupt virtualization whereas the KVM user-space tool is an application which helps users create and manage Guest instances (or Virtual Machines)

Some useful links regarding the KVM hypervisor are as follows:

• Official Website
• Wikipedia

This wiki is focused on the KVM RISC-V hypervisor (The RISC-V port the KVM hypervisor).

Important KVM RISC-V related GIT repos are:

• KVM RISC-V: https://github.com/kvm-riscv/linux.git
• KVMTOOL RISC-V: https://github.com/kvm-riscv/kvmtool.git

The common mailing list for KVM RISC-V related projects is [email protected]. To join this mailing list, visit http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kvm-riscv

Following is the list of useful KVM RISC-V tutorials:

• KVM RISC-V 64bit on QEMU
• KVM RISC-V 64bit on Spike
• KVM RISC-V 64bit on Firesim