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recent versions of Linux (and other OSes), but ibvir won't try to provide all
possible interfaces for interacting with the virtualization features of a set
of Linux (or other OS) system.</p><p>To avoid ambiguity about the terms used here here are the definitions for
generic and stable layer to manage domains on a node.</p><p>This implies the following:</p><ul><li>the API should not be targetted to a single virtualization environment
</ul><p>So libvir should be a building block for higher level management tools or
for applications focusing on virtualization on a single node (the only
exception being domain migration between node capabilities which may need to
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