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<h1>The virtualization API</h1>
<h2>libvirt is:</h2>
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A toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes), see our
<a href="goals.html">project goals</a> for details.
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Free software available under the
<a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.html">GNU
Lesser General Public License</a>.
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A long term stable C API
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A set of bindings for common languages
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A <a href="CIM/">CIM provider</a> for the DMTF virtualization schema
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A <a href="/qpid/">QMF agent</a> for the AMQP/QPid messaging system
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<h2>libvirt supports:</h2>
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html">KVM/QEMU</a> Linux hypervisor
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvxen.html">Xen</a> hypervisor
on Linux and Solaris hosts.
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvlxc.html">LXC</a> Linux container system
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvopenvz.html">OpenVZ</a> Linux container system
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvuml.html">User Mode Linux</a> paravirtualized kernel
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvvbox.html">VirtualBox</a> hypervisor
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html">VMware ESX and GSX</a> hypervisors
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvvmware.html">VMware Workstation and Player</a> hypervisors
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvhyperv.html">Microsoft Hyper-V</a> hypervisor
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Virtual networks using bridging, NAT, VEPA and VN-LINK.
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Storage on IDE/SCSI/USB disks, FibreChannel, LVM, iSCSI, NFS and filesystems
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<h2>libvirt provides:</h2>
<ul><li>Remote management using TLS encryption and x509 certificates</li><li>Remote management authenticating with Kerberos and SASL</li><li>Local access control using PolicyKit</li><li>Zero-conf discovery using Avahi multicast-DNS</li><li>Management of virtual machines, virtual networks and storage</li><li>Portable client API for Linux, Solaris and Windows</li></ul>
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