KVM is a hypervisor module in the Linux Kernel that helps you run multiple virtual machines on a Linux machine with the help of virtualization extensions.

KVM supports the wide variety of guest operating systems such as Linux, Windows, Unix family OSes, and much more. You can manage virtual machines using the command line or available graphical tools.

Virt-Manager (Virtual Machine Manager) is the graphical application for managing KVM based virtual machines. It supports creating, starting, stopping, and managing virtual machines, as well as the migration of virtual machines between KVM hosts.

The steps mentioned here afterward will work on Linux Mint as well.

Prerequisites

VT Support

KVM will work only if the system CPU has the support of hardware virtualization, either Intel VT or AMD-V.

To find out whether your CPU supports VT features, run the following command.

egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

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