Re:VirtualBox KVM Public Release
by jkrshnmenon on Thursday February 08, 2024 @01:39PM
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This only affects anyone that wants to spin up VirtualBox VM's on Linux hosts.
I'm not an expert in this field, but my best TL;DR is that VirtualBox and other VMM's (virtual machine monitor) used to ship with
their own hypervisors (the thing that let's you run virtual machines). However, now Linux has its own hypervisor/framework (KVM) and now VirtualBox can use KVM to do all the functionalities their own hypervisor used to do.
I'm not an expert in this field, but my best TL;DR is that VirtualBox and other VMM's (virtual machine monitor) used to ship with their own hypervisors (the thing that let's you run virtual machines). However, now Linux has its own hypervisor/framework (KVM) and now VirtualBox can use KVM to do all the functionalities their own hypervisor used to do.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong