Glossary: Virtualization and Cloud Basics

QEMU

Also written: Quick Emulator

A free program that makes a whole virtual PC (firmware, disk controller, network card and serial port). With KVM it uses the CPU's help; without it, it emulates.

Where the book teaches it

Start here
Chapter 2: Hypervisors, VM disks and snapshots

Related terms

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)TCG (Tiny Code Generator)