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A lot of information in this article seems to be concerned with QEMU rather than KVM. Sections "graphical management tools" and "emulated hardware" are especially irrelevant to KVM and most of their contents apply to QEMU (or <code>qemu-kvm</code>). Section "emulated hardware" also contradicts with the prior statement that KVM does not perform emulation. [[User:Magic sergeant|Magic sergeant]] ([[User talk:Magic sergeant|talk]]) 03:40, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

:: I deleted most of the hardware emulation content here and updated the text to indicate that device emulation is provided by the userspace application. There are several available, each of which presents a different device model. KVM itself emulates very few devices. [[User:Nmeyerhans|Nmeyerhans]] ([[User talk:Nmeyerhans|talk]]) 16:53, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

== Clarification of the emulation confusion ==

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I’ve tried to clarify the confusion about emulation mention in the note in the “Emulated Hardware” section. Please check if it is clear now and change or remove the note <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Rafimoor|Rafimoor]] ([[User talk:Rafimoor#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Rafimoor|contribs]]) 04:18, 31 August 2019 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

[[User:Rafimoor|Rafimoor]] ([[User talk:Rafimoor|talk]]) 04:20, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

== Layman inconsistencies in the artle ==

I'm not an expert but these two statements seem to entirely contradict each other.

"KVM provides device abstraction but no processor emulation."

and:

"KVM itself emulates very little hardware, instead deferring to a higher level client application such as QEMU, crosvm, or Firecracker for device emulation.

KVM provides the following emulated devices:

Virtual CPU and memory

VirtIO"

This needs to be clarified because it makes no sense. [[Special:Contributions/2601:646:9E01:B460:2D40:3293:BD31:BF66|2601:646:9E01:B460:2D40:3293:BD31:BF66]] ([[User talk:2601:646:9E01:B460:2D40:3293:BD31:BF66|talk]]) 19:22, 7 July 2024 (UTC)