Scope

Bacula Enterprise KVM module is supported on RHEL. The KVM Plugin is designed to be used when the hypervisor uses local storage for virtual machine disks and libvirtd for virtual machine management.

The current version of the KVM Plugin is compatible with:

• Proxmox (note that as of Bacula Enterprise 10, a specific Proxmox Plugin is available)

• Redhat RHV or Ovirt

• OpenStack

Kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) is an open source virtualization infrastructure built for Linux OS. It requires x86-based processor architecture to operate. KVM consists of two technology components: kernel and user-space. Kernel has two loadable modules: kvm.ko, and either kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko. The kvm.ko module is responsible for core architecture-independent virtualization processing. The latter two correspond to Intel and AMD processor-specific modules. These modules were merged into the Linux kernel as of version 2.6.20.

See also

Next articles:

• Features

• Installation

• Configuration

• Operations

• Limitations

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