What is the purpose of the `vm_list` in KVM?

Question

I started investigating how virtual machines are scheduled in KVM, and stumbled upon the vm_list, but I got stuck. So what is the purpose of the vm_list? Any relation to scheduling?

Answer 1

Following the basic cloud architecture which had VMs on the top of Hypervisor;

KVM ideally allocates and tracks resource of all the VMs .

The two structs mm_struct and vm_list are a part of kvm struct to maintain resource allocation to n number of VMs spawn by KVM

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