Kernel Based Virtual machine (KVM) under unRAID

[alphazo]

I have seen a number of threads talking about VMWare and VirtualBox but what about KVM (Kernel Based Virtual) machine that ships with Linux kernel?

I would like to run KVM on top of unRAID for running small server appliances.

 

Do you think that re-compiling the kernel to enable "kvm" and "kvm-intel" would be enough to get KVM running?  What about virtio for faster I/O, does it require special kernel modules?

Finally I guess qemu-kvm package might be required as well?

 

Would someone be kind enough to recompile unRAID kernel (5.0-beta14) with kvm extensions?

 

Thanks

Alphazo

 

[EDIT]

Looking at the following page I'm no longer sure that kernel needs to be recompiled or not.

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/system/kvm-kmod/