About OKD Virtualization
- What you can do with OKD Virtualization
  - OKD Virtualization supported cluster version

About OKD Virtualization

Learn about OKD Virtualization’s capabilities and support scope.

What you can do with OKD Virtualization

OKD Virtualization is an add-on to OKD that allows you to run and manage virtual machine workloads alongside container workloads.

OKD Virtualization adds new objects into your OKD cluster via Kubernetes custom resources to enable virtualization tasks. These tasks include:

Creating and managing Linux and Windows virtual machines
Connecting to virtual machines through a variety of consoles and CLI tools
Importing and cloning existing virtual machines
Managing network interface controllers and storage disks attached to virtual machines
Live migrating virtual machines between nodes

An enhanced web console provides a graphical portal to manage these virtualized resources alongside the OKD cluster containers and infrastructure.

OKD Virtualization is tested with OpenShift Data Foundation (OCS) and designed to use with OCS features for the best experience.

You can use OKD Virtualization with the OVN-Kubernetes, OpenShift SDN, or one of the other certified default Container Network Interface (CNI) network providers listed in Certified OpenShift CNI Plug-ins.

OKD Virtualization supported cluster version

OKD Virtualization 4.10 is supported for use on OKD 4.10 clusters. To use the latest z-stream release of OKD Virtualization, you must first upgrade to the latest version of OKD.