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There is always a hypervisor driver active, and if the libvirt daemon is available there will usually be a network and storage driver active. </p> <h2> <a name="hypervisor" shape="rect" id="hypervisor">Hypervisor drivers</a> </h2> <p> The hypervisor drivers currently supported by libvirt are: </p> <ul><li><strong><a href="drvlxc.html" shape="rect">LXC</a></strong> - Linux Containers</li><li><strong><a href="drvopenvz.html" shape="rect">OpenVZ</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="drvqemu.html" shape="rect">QEMU</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="drvtest.html" shape="rect">Test</a></strong> - Used for testing</li><li><strong><a href="drvuml.html" shape="rect">UML</a></strong> - User Mode Linux</li><li><strong><a href="drvvbox.html" shape="rect">VirtualBox</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="drvesx.html" shape="rect">VMware ESX</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="drvvmware.html" shape="rect">VMware Workstation/Player</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="drvxen.html" shape="rect">Xen</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="drvhyperv.html" shape="rect">Microsoft Hyper-V</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="drvphyp.html" shape="rect">IBM PowerVM (phyp)</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="drvparallels.html" shape="rect">Parallels</a></strong></li></ul> <h2> <a name="storage" shape="rect" id="storage">Storage drivers</a> </h2> <ul><li><strong><a href="storage.html#StorageBackendDir" shape="rect">Directory backend</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="storage.html#StorageBackendFS" shape="rect">Local filesystem backend</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="storage.html#StorageBackendNetFS" shape="rect">Network filesystem backend</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="storage.html#StorageBackendLogical" shape="rect">Logical Volume Manager (LVM) backend</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="storage.html#StorageBackendDisk" shape="rect">Disk backend</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="storage.html#StorageBackendISCSI" shape="rect">iSCSI backend</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="storage.html#StorageBackendSCSI" shape="rect">SCSI backend</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="storage.html#StorageBackendMultipath" shape="rect">Multipath backend</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="storage.html#StorageBackendRBD" shape="rect">RBD (RADOS Block Device) backend</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="storage.html#StorageBackendSheepdog" shape="rect">Sheepdog backend</a></strong></li></ul> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <p id="sponsor"> Sponsored by:<br /><a href="http://et.redhat.com/"><img src="et.png" alt="Project sponsored by Red Hat Emerging Technology" /></a></p> </div> </body> </html>