Installing KVM on Dedicated Hardware

Learn to install KVM on dedicated hardware with Ubuntu server.

You can Install KVM by running the below command:

sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin virtinst bridge-utils cpu-checker

Verify that KVM is correctly installed by running the below command:

kvm-ok

If you get the below output then the server hardware is capable of running virtual machines. If not, you have to enable this from the BIOS.

INFO: /dev/kvm exists

KVM acceleration can be used