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Snziv Gupta
Snziv Gupta

Reputation: 1066

Can one install KVM on Windows?

Can one install KVM on a Windows system where Windows will be the host operating system?

I have searched a lot but every answer is about how one can install Windows as guest on KVM.

Upvotes: 14

Views: 109871

Answers (4)

user12381766
user12381766

Reputation:

Google ported KVM to Windows. The name is misleading. http://github.com/google/Android-emulator-hypervisor-driver-for-amd-processors

Upvotes: 6

Ben Aveling
Ben Aveling

Reputation: 914

You can run a linux VM on Windows, and then run most of the KVM toolchain inside it. But the core KVM depends having the Linux kernel running in baremetal. Without that, you're dependent on the qemu emulator, which should work in theory, albeit slowly. In practice, and maybe I didn't try hard enough, it didn't work for me.

Upvotes: 1

DC.Bouygues
DC.Bouygues

Reputation: 91

KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine. It's for Linux only. You can use the similar solution - HAXM. It's be supported by Windows 7 (32/64) or higher. You can get details from here: https://github.com/intel/haxm

Upvotes: 8

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 6037

No, it does not install on a windows system, because it is a linux kernel module.

Upvotes: 22

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