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Bacula Enterprise Only

This solution is only available for Bacula Enterprise. For subscription inquiries, please reach out to sales@baculasystems.com.

Bacula Enterprise KVM module is supported on RHEL. The KVM Plugin is designed to be used when the hypervisor uses local storage for virtual machine disks and libvirtd for virtual machine management. The KVM Plugin does not support image-based backups.

To back up any of the following hypervisors, consider using a dedicated plugin:

KVM: Use the Libvirt Plugin.
Proxmox: Use the Proxmox or QEMU Plugins.
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) or Ovirt: Use the RHV Plugin.
OpenStack: Use the OpenStack Plugin.

Kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) is an open source virtualization infrastructure built for Linux OS. It requires x86-based processor architecture to operate. KVM consists of two technology components: kernel and user-space. Kernel has two loadable modules: kvm.ko, and either kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko. The kvm.ko module is responsible for core architecture-independent virtualization processing. The latter two correspond to Intel and AMD processor-specific modules. These modules were merged into the Linux kernel as of version 2.6.20.