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Chapter 20. Virtualization
Virtualization is being adopted in many different environments and situations. If you are a developer, virtualization can provide you with a contained environment where you can safely do almost any sort of development safe from messing up your main working environment. If you are a systems administrator, you can use virtualization to more easily separate your services and move them around based on demand.
The default virtualization technology supported in Ubuntu is KVM. For Intel and AMD hardware KVM requires virtualization extensions. But KVM is also available for IBM Z and LinuxONE, IBM POWER as well as for ARM64. Xen is also supported on Ubuntu, but not for all architecture, for example not for
IBM Z and LinuxONE. Xen can take advantage of virtualization extensions, when available, but can also be used on hardware without virtualization extensions. Qemu is another popular solution for hardware without virtualization extensions.