Version v1.11 of the documentation is for the Talos version being developed. For the latest stable version of Talos, see the latest version.

KVM

Talos is known to work on KVM.

We don’t yet have a documented guide specific to KVM; however, you can have a look at our Vagrant & Libvirt guide which uses KVM for virtualization.

Also talosctl cluster create with QEMU uses KVM under the hood.

Note: For the network interface emulation, virtio and e1000 are supported.

Last modified June 9, 2025: docs: update kvm documentation (8f5cf81db)