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As a person with sysadmin skills, sometimes I need to test the program that I made without thinking about looking for another computer hardware (unless for ARM, that I need hardware for testing), and I have been familiar with VMware for nearly 2 years, and somehow VMware isn't fit for me because it's really obese, and sometimes it cannot interoperate like what VirtIOFS does. I don't want to run a Docker-based container because it wastes my storage, and I don't necessarily need it for now. After a few months trying QEMU/KVM, I guess we finally have a virtualised environment that we can tweak whatever we want without the limitations that VMware and VirtualBox didn't offer.

Basically, when I want to run the subsystem that could integrate like what WSL2 did, I am trying to learn how to utilise the KVM by reading some docs that exist so much on the Internet, even on openSUSE Docs regarding KVM, I would give an try for this one, since I want to be less dependent on VMware, and it's amazing. They did have running under libvirtd with some other components that were required for running the VMs. The performance I faced when running is really great since the module is built into the Linux kernel.

For management, I am using virt-manager, which is a program made by Red Hat for managing virtual machines. Since QEMU is a free and open source emulation program, and they require you to understand the commands and have comfort using the terminal, I guess these management tools like virt-manager really help. KVM only accelerate the architecture that you're using on your computer. If you have x86_64, then it only accelerates on Intel/AMD's 64-bit architecture. But if you're on ARM64 or aarch64, it could be the same as what Intel/AMD's 64-bit does. I even think of running the first Intel-based Mac OS X using QEMU/KVM if I could.

Well, I guess this is just the beginning of using QEMU/KVM in my daily computing. Should you use QEMU/KVM? If you want to learn and use it on your Linux computer for your daily work, then you should try it. For beginners? If you want, take it.

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