Beginning with kvm-79, there’s now support for Bluetooth devices that was included as part of the latest qemu merge.

There’s a feature in kvm which allows you to multiplex your serial and monitor port over a single connection.

Beginning with kvm-76, you can now assign a unique machine identifier to your kvm guest machine during startup using the –uuid option.

Support for hugetlbfs was added with the release of kvm-62 and it can give your kvm guest machine a performance boost anywhere up to 10%.

Have you ever accidentally killed your virtual machine by clicking the close icon on your virtual machine window?

Patches have been submitted by KVM developer Anthony Liguori featuring dynamic ballooning of kvm guest virtual machine memory.

There’s a lesser known option that was added fairly recently to kvm-71 as an addition to the qemu-img command. It allows you to create a copy on write image while using the convert option.

USB autoconnect and disconnect are slated for the next release of KVM.  You should be typing usb_add monitor commands much less for supporting usb devices and will not have to ty

Running your KVM virtual machines headless in a data center environment using the built in vnc server is a neat feature of KVM but what happens when you want to access your monitor from across the

In the first part of this series about using base images to be more productive, I discussed how you can use base images to build template disk images from which you can create copy on write clones.