Doesn't use the device /dev/kvm, that's fine, but uses the 'kvm' kernel module 
or also is separated?

On 15/04/2017 21:42, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> VirtualBox has a bunch of APIs that are compatible with KVM:
> KVM-paravirt-clock and KVM-VirtIO-network, but it is all totally
> separate code, written by VirtualBox developers.
> It doesn't use /dev/kvm, but /dev/vboxdrv instead.
>
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 3:34 AM, Marcos Alano <marcoshal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a friend of mine who says he can use qemu-kvm to accelerate a
> > paravirtualized Windows VM inside VirtualBox. I know there's a KVM
> > paravirtualization provider, but I couldn't find any information about
> > if the provider uses KVM for real, accessing /dev/kvm device and stuff.
> > As far as I can tell the provider is just how VirtualBox presents itself
> > to the VMs, but not seems there's any real connection.
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Marcos Alano
> > marcoshal...@gmail.com
> >
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