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Linux provides hypervisor facilities by using the QEMU in the user space and a specialized kernel module called the KVM (the Linux Kernel Virtual Machine). The KVM uses the Intel vt-x extension instruction set to isolate resources at the hardware level. Since the QEMU is a user space process, the kernel treats it like other processes from a scheduling perspective.
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Jain, S.M. (2020). Hypervisors. In: Linux Containers and Virtualization. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6283-2_2
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