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Glossary: Virtualization and Cloud Basics

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)

Also written: Kernel-based Virtual Machine

The hypervisor built into the Linux kernel. Once it's loaded, Linux itself is a type 1 hypervisor, and AWS's Nitro is built on it.

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