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+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
+
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
+
+========================
+KVM4NFV Project Overview
+========================
+
+Project Purpose
+---------------
+**Purpose:**
+
+ ``This document provides an overview of the areas that can be addressed to
+ enhance the KVM Hypervisor for NFV. It is intended to capture and convey the
+ significant changes which have been made on the KVM Hypervisor.``
+
+Project Description
+-------------------
+The NFV hypervisors provide crucial functionality in the NFV
+Infrastructure(NFVI).The existing hypervisors, however, are not necessarily
+designed or targeted to meet the requirements for the NFVI.
+
+This design focuses on the enhancement of following area for KVM Hypervisor
+
+* Minimal Interrupt latency variation for data plane VNFs:
+ * Minimal Timing Variation for Timing correctness of real-time VNFs
+ * Minimal packet latency variation for data-plane VNFs
+* Fast live migration
+
+The detailed understanding of this project is organized into different sections-
+
+* **installation procedure** - This will give the user instructions on how to deploy
+ available KVM4NFV build scenario.
+* **design** - This includes the parameters or design considerations taken into
+ account for achieving minimal interrupt latency for the data VNFs.
+* **requirements** - This includes the introduction of KVM4NFV project,
+ specifications of how the project should work, and constraints placed upon
+ its execution.
+* **configuration guide** - This provides guidance for configuring KVM4NFV
+ environment, even with the use of specific installer tools for deploying some
+ components, available in the Danube release of OPNFV.
+* **scenarios** - This includes the sceanrios that are currently implemented in the
+ kvm4nfv project,features of each scenario and a general guide to how to deploy them.
+* **userguide** - This provides the required technical assistance to the user, in
+ using the KVM4NFV process.
+* **release notes** - This describes a brief summary of recent changes, enhancements
+ and bug fixes in the KVM4NFV project.
+* **glossary** - It includes the definition of terms, used in the KVM4NFV project.