The virtualization API
Introduction
The libvirt project:
is a toolkit to manage
virtualization platforms
is accessible from C, Python, Perl, Go and more
is licensed under open source licenses
supports
KVM
,
Hypervisor.framework
,
QEMU
,
Xen
,
Virtuozzo
,
VMWare ESX
,
LXC
,
BHyve
and
more
targets Linux, FreeBSD,
Windows
and
macOS
is used by many
applications
Recent / forthcoming
release changes
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Security vulnerabilities
View security notices and report vulnerabilities to the libvirt security response team
Bug reporting
View and report bugs in libvirt packages
XML configuration
Description of the XML schemas for
domains
,
networks
,
network filtering
,
storage
,
storage encryption
,
capabilities
,
domain capabilities
,
storage pool capabilities
,
node devices
,
secrets
,
snapshots
,
checkpoints
,
backup jobs
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Virt Tools blog planet
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