Does PhotonOS support running a KVM instance?
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Not a feature request, but a question. Are you able to run a VM (OVA) instance from within Photon? There aren't any VMware, KVM or similar packages that I could find in the package repos and I haven't been able to get KVM to compile within my photon instance (tried in minimal and developer mode). Obviously containers run fine. I assumed that running VMs would work as well, but I couldn't find any documentation that states whether or not running VM instances within Photon is supported.
Describe the solution you'd like
Whether or not you can run OVAs/VMs from within Photon.
Describe alternatives you've considered
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Research direction
No files or tests are mentioned. Start by checking PhotonOS package repositories and the reported KVM build attempts, then document whether running OVA or other VM instances inside PhotonOS is supported and what limitations apply.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100