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Ubuntu - KVM - Install and Configure KVM

Install KVM

sudo apt install qemu qemu-kvm libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system virtinst bridge-utils

where

qemu - A generic machine emulator and virtualizer,
qemu-kvm - QEMU metapackage for KVM support (i.e. QEMU Full virtualization on x86 hardware),
libvirt-clients - programs for the libvirt library,
libvirt-daemon-system - Libvirt daemon configuration files,
virtinst - programs to create and clone virtual machines,
bridge-utils - utilities for configuring the Linux Ethernet bridge.