Lguest is a

Linux kernel The Linux kernel is a Free and open-source software, free and open source Unix-like kernel (operating system), kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide. The kernel was created by Linus Torvalds in 1991 and was soon adopted as the k ...

x86 virtualization x86 virtualization is the use of hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities on an x86/x86-64 CPU. In the late 1990s x86 virtualization was achieved by complex software techniques, necessary to compensate for the processor's lack of hardware ...

hypervisor A hypervisor, also known as a virtual machine monitor (VMM) or virtualizer, is a type of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines. A computer on which a hypervisor runs one or more virtual machines is called ...

introduced in kernel version 2.6.23 (released 9 October 2007) and removed in kernel version 4.14 (November 2017). The hypervisor is an

operating-system-level virtualization OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances, including containers ( LXC, Solaris Containers, AIX WPARs, HP-UX SRP Containers, ...

system capable of running unmodified 32-bit x86 Linux kernels as guest machines. Installation is as easy as running ''modprobe lg'' followed by ''tools/lguest/lguest'' to create a new guest. Lguest can still be installed on kernel 4.14 and later through out-of-tree patches. Lguest was maintained by

Rusty Russell Rusty Russell is an Australian free software programmer and advocate, known for his work on the Linux kernel's networking subsystem and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. Software development Russell wrote the packet filtering systems ipch ...

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An introduction to lguest
(LWN.net) Linux kernel features Free virtualization software Virtualization software for Linux {{Linux-stub

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