Hardware-Assisted Virtualization with KVM/QEMU

Hardware-Assisted Virtualization with KVM/QEMU

This lecture introduces hardware-assisted CPU virtualization with KVM/QEMU, describes Intel VT-x/AMD-V features, role of VMX, KVM and QEMU architecture, the VMCS structure for CPU state switching, how guest VMs are managed, and integration of management tools like libvirt and virt-manager.