Can I use a droplet to create linux KVMs while building a VM management app?

March 2, 2016 2.5k views
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greglafrance007
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I'm new to KVM, but I read that KVM requires a processor with hardware virtualization extension.

Do DigitalOcean's droplets have this support for KVMs? I'd like to spin up multiple KVMs on a droplet, stress them in different ways, and have a dashboard that illustrates the various KVM CPU, storage, and networking metrics.

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  • greglafrance007 March 2, 2016

    Okay. I figured performance might not be great, but I was looking for a way to have a test bed where I could fire up several KVMs to test my VM management app.

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ryanpq MOD March 2, 2016

DigitalOcean droplets are KVM based machines. While it may be possible to run a KVM instance inside a droplet (I know it is possible to run a Virtualbox VM) the performance can be expected to be quite poor as is usually the case with nested virtualization.

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