Setting up Linux as a KVM host

6.10 LPAR mode KVM guest

A KVM host has hardware, kernel, and user space requirements.

Hardware

The real or virtual hardware must provide the Start Interpretive Execution (SIE) feature.

Kernel

The kernel must be compiled to include KVM.

User space

You must obtain and load packages for the following programs:
  • QEMU
  • libvirt
Your distribution might include these packages.