Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: John-Paul Stewart Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Something Wrong With DebiVerse FFmpeg Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:56:21 -0500 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <10n59lv$2vl2m$2@dont-email.me> <10n6k7r$3ce18$1@dont-email.me> <2ZIlR.27736$N1Q8.448@fx41.iad> <10n8oli$3uu6$2@dont-email.me> <8xKdnU2aRfV-yQT0nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <10nc7jp$17ccd$2@dont-email.me> <9qadnaJBlKQLUgf0nZ2dnZfqn_udnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Mfw6/m9OOMXoWwBRewmCzQDMSW3j9J4IT3Qpy/MyC1EOjEkFeC Cancel-Lock: sha1:vLZf9P9Q9ULd7G5c+EEvAvb5t7w= sha256:wPsTSC3d0H96sH2yLvwmfKBTC7RokdyeorYBL4fTDlA= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-CA In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:82187 On 2026-02-22 1:49 p.m., rbowman wrote: > On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:42:43 -0500, c186282 wrote: > >> I know VirtualBox better than KVM at this point, >> and the repos no longer have KVM as a distinct thing to install. > > They don't have kvm as a distinct thing because it's baked into the > kernel. > > KVM -- Kernel-based Virtualization Machine > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine Plus, KVM is just the backend kernel part of virtualization. Previously, Debian had a qemu-kvm package that used the KVM kernel module to provide hardware virtualization services for QEMU. That's now been replaced by the qemu-system-x86 package, the description of which ends with: "On x86 host hardware this package also enables KVM kernel virtual machine usage on systems which support it." The previous poster's link to Wikipedia explains: "KVM itself emulates very little hardware, instead deferring to a higher level client application such as QEMU, crosvm, or Firecracker for device emulation." Then, as has been mentioned elsewhere, virt-manager provides a nicer user interface to the QEMU/KVM combo. So KVM isn't something that users install, configure, and use directly. It's the hardware driver at the bottom layer of a whole stack of stuff.