Installing KVM on openSUSE is super fast. In this tutorial, I am going to use openSUSE Tumbleweed as my operating system. Please note that this is just a first steps introduction tutorial, and covers the basics of KVM as virtualization platform on the desktop. I will take you through installation of KVM and creation of a virtual machine step by step. This tutorial is aimed to new Linux users, or users that are not familiar with KVM hypervisor. Also, for those that work in IT, it is really great to have same virtualization platform that runs on desktops, laptops, and on servers. On top of that, you are likely to learn some enterprise virtualization skills while using it. It is easy to install, runs super fast, has no proprietary licenses. What many Linux users don’t know, is that KVM is great also to be used as a desktop virtualization solution. It is used by many cloud providers and virtualization products use at their core, and it has an extensive set of tools. Linux KVM is a complete, open source virtualization platform.
