“Avi Kivity announced significant performance improvements and
support for running 32-bit Windows Vista as a guest within the
latest release of KVM. Originally merged into the 2.6.20 mainline
Linux kernel, KVM stands for Kernel-based Virtual Machine, ‘a full
virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing
virtualization extensions.’ Regarding the new release, Avi
announced:“‘The happy theme of today’s kvm is the significant performance
improvements, brought to you by a growing team of developers. I’ve
clocked kbuild at within 25% of native. This release also
introduces support for 32-bit Windows Vista…'”