A <ahref="CIM/">CIM provider</a> for the DMTF virtualization schema
</li></ul>
<h2>libvirt supports:</h2>
<ul><li>
The <ahref="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html">Xen</a> hypervisor
on Linux and Solaris hosts.
</li><li>
The <ahref="http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/">QEMU</a> emulator
</li><li>
The <ahref="http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki">KVM</a> Linux hypervisor
</li><li>
The <ahref="http://lxc.sourceforge.net/">LXC</a> Linux container system
</li><li>
The <ahref="http://openvz.org/">OpenVZ</a> Linux container system
</li><li>
Storage on IDE/SCSI/USB disks, FibreChannel, LVM, iSCSI, NFS and filesystems
</li></ul>
<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 mulicast-DNS</li><li>Management of virtual machines, virtual networks and storage</li></ul>
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