It can do more than just store all your files.

Anyone using VMware on Linux will be able to use KVM as a hypervisor in future. However, there are not yet many details about the change. Kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) instead of proprietary ...

Microsoft's Hyper-V and Linux's KVM are capable, enterprise-class hypervisors that can host VMs and scale to the largest of workloads. These options are both type 1 hypervisors, but there are some ...