* Eliminate single point of failure (redundant components)
** use an uninterruptible power supply (UPS)
-** use redundant power supplies on the main boards
+** use redundant power supplies in your servers
** use ECC-RAM
** use redundant network hardware
** use RAID for local storage
* CPU: 64bit (Intel EMT64 or AMD64)
-* Intel VT/AMD-V capable CPU/Mainboard for KVM full virtualization support
+* Intel VT/AMD-V capable CPU/motherboard for KVM full virtualization support
* RAM: 1 GB RAM, plus additional RAM needed for guests
Hardware
^^^^^^^^
Your hardware needs to support `IOMMU` (*I*/*O* **M**emory **M**anagement
-**U**nit) interrupt remapping, this includes the CPU and the mainboard.
+**U**nit) interrupt remapping, this includes the CPU and the motherboard.
Generally, Intel systems with VT-d and AMD systems with AMD-Vi support this.
But it is not guaranteed that everything will work out of the box, due
Emulated devices and paravirtualized devices
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-The PC hardware emulated by QEMU includes a mainboard, network controllers,
+The PC hardware emulated by QEMU includes a motherboard, network controllers,
SCSI, IDE and SATA controllers, serial ports (the complete list can be seen in
the `kvm(1)` man page) all of them emulated in software. All these devices
are the exact software equivalent of existing hardware devices, and if the OS