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A wide variety of guest operating systems work with KVM, including many flavours and versions of Linux, BSD, [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Haiku (operating system)|Haiku]], [[ReactOS]], [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs|Plan 9]], [[AROS Research Operating System]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Guest_Support_Status | title = KVM wiki: Guest support status | accessdate =2007-05-27 }}</ref> and [[OS X]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/|title=Running Mac OS X as a QEMU/KVM Guest|accessdate=2014-08-20}}</ref> In addition, Android 2.2, GNU/Hurd<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/status.html |title=status |publisher=Gnu.org |date= |accessdate=2014-02-12}}</ref> (Debian K16), [[MINIX 3|Minix]] 3.1.2a, Solaris 10 U3 and Darwin 8.0.1, together with other operating systems and some newer versions of these listed, are known to work with certain limitations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Guest_Support_Status |title=Guest Support Status - KVM |publisher=Linux-kvm.org |date= |accessdate=2014-02-12}}</ref>

[[Paravirtualization]] support for certain devices is available for Linux, OpenBSD,<ref>{{cite web |url=httphttps://wwwman.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/manvirtio.cgi?query=virtio&manpath=OpenBSD%20Current&sektion=4&format=html|title=OpenBSD man page virtio(4) |accessdate=20132018-0702-1504}}</ref> FreeBSD,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://people.freebsd.org/~kuriyama/virtio/|title=virtio binary packages for FreeBSD|accessdate=2012-10-29}}</ref> NetBSD,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?virtio++NetBSD-current |title= NetBSD man page virtio(4) |accessdate=2013-07-15}}</ref> Plan 9<ref>{{cite web |url=https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/qemu |title=plan9front |accessdate=2013-02-11}}</ref> and Windows guests using the '''VirtIO'''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lwn.net/Articles/239238/ |title=An API for virtual I/O: virtio |date=2007-07-11 |accessdate=2014-04-16 |publisher=[[LWN.net]]}}</ref> API. This supports a paravirtual Ethernet card, a paravirtual disk I/O controller,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://linux-iscsi.org/wiki/vHost |title=SCSI target for KVM wiki |publisher=linux-iscsi.org |date=2012-08-07 |accessdate=2012-08-12}}</ref> a balloon device for adjusting guest memory usage, and a VGA graphics interface using [[SPICE (protocol)|SPICE]] or [[VMware]] drivers.

== Internals ==