This page covers the efforts to integrate various virtualization
technologies into Fedora. For information on using Fedora as a
virtual machine, see Installing a Fedora Virtual Machine.
Virtualization allows one to run many guest virtual machines on
top of a host operating system such as Fedora. What this means
is that using one computer, you can mimic several individual
computers and even run different operating systems in each of
these virtual machines. There are many different virtualization
technologies, including both free and open source software and
proprietary offerings. A good article on IBM DeveloperWorks Web
site illustrates the four main different virtualization
families, namely hardware emulation, hardware-assisted
virtualization, para-virtualization (PV) and containers/zones.
Hardware emulation uses a VM to simulate the required hardware.
A few implementations: Full virtualization uses a hypervisor
(a.k.a. VMM, standing for Virtual Machine Monitor) to share the
underlying hardware. A few impleme