: Indicates the 64-bit version of the FortiGate Virtual Machine.
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: The image only consumes the space it actually uses on the host. : Indicates the 64-bit version of the FortiGate
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: The target hypervisor is Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) .
This is a 64-bit FortiGate virtual appliance.
KVM is the open-source virtualization stack built into Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS). It turns the Linux kernel into a type-1 hypervisor. Unlike VMware ESXi (proprietary), KVM is free and widely used in cloud providers (OpenStack, Proxmox VE, oVirt).