7 menuconfig VIRTUALIZATION
9 depends on HAVE_KVM || X86
12 Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run other
13 operating systems inside virtual machines (guests).
14 This option alone does not add any kernel code.
16 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled.
21 tristate "Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) support"
23 select PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
27 Support hosting fully virtualized guest machines using hardware
28 virtualization extensions. You will need a fairly recent
29 processor equipped with virtualization extensions. You will also
30 need to select one or more of the processor modules below.
32 This module provides access to the hardware capabilities through
33 a character device node named /dev/kvm.
35 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module
41 tristate "KVM for Intel processors support"
44 Provides support for KVM on Intel processors equipped with the VT
48 tristate "KVM for AMD processors support"
51 Provides support for KVM on AMD processors equipped with the AMD-V
55 bool "KVM trace support"
56 depends on KVM && MARKERS && SYSFS
61 This option allows reading a trace of kvm-related events through
62 relayfs. Note the ABI is not considered stable and will be
63 modified in future updates.
65 # OK, it's a little counter-intuitive to do this, but it puts it neatly under
66 # the virtualization menu.
67 source drivers/lguest/Kconfig
68 source drivers/virtio/Kconfig
70 endif # VIRTUALIZATION