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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="libvir.css" /><title>Introduction</title></head><body><div id="container"><div id="intro"><div id="adjustments"></div><div id="pageHeader"></div><div id="content2"><h1 class="style1">Introduction</h1><p>Libvir 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
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="libvir.css" /><title>Introduction</title></head><body><div id="container"><div id="intro"><div id="adjustments"></div><div id="pageHeader"></div><div id="content2"><h1 class="style1">Introduction</h1><p>Libvir is a C toolkit to interract with the virtualization capabilities of
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
soem of the specific terms used in libvir documentation:</p><ul><li>a <strong>node</strong> is a single physical machine</li>
<li>an <strong>hypervisor</strong> is a layer of software allowing to
virtualize a node in a set of virtual machines with possibly different
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<li>a <strong>domain</strong> is an instance of an operating system running
on a virtualized machine</li>
</ul><p>Now we can define the goal of libvir: to provide the lowest possible
generic 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
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
though Xen is the current default, which also means that some very
specific capabilities which are not generic enough may not be provided as
libvir APIs</li>
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<li>the API will not try to provide hight level multi-nodes management
features like load balancing, though they could be implemented on top of
libvir</li>
<li>stability of the API is a big concern, libvir should isolate
applications from the frequent changes expected at the lower level of the
virtualization framework</li>
</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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<p>Here is the list of official releases, however since it is early on in the
development of libvir, it is preferable when possible to just use the <a
href="download.html">CVS version or snapshot</a>, contact the mailing list
href="downloads.html">CVS version or snapshot</a>, contact the mailing list
and check the <a href="ChangeLog.html">ChangeLog</a> to gauge progresses.</p>
<h3>0.0.1: Dec 19 2005</h3>
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<h2><a name="Introducti">Introduction</a></h2>
<p>Libvir 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>Libvir is a C toolkit to interract with the virtualization capabilities of
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
soem of the specific terms used in libvir documentation:</p>
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</ul>
<p>Now we can define the goal of libvir: to provide the lowest possible
generic layer to manage domains on a node.</p>
generic and stable layer to manage domains on a node.</p>
<p>This implies the following:</p>
<ul>
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<li>the API will not try to provide hight level multi-nodes management
features like load balancing, though they could be implemented on top of
libvir</li>
<li>stability of the API is a big concern, libvir should isolate
applications from the frequent changes expected at the lower level of the
virtualization framework</li>
</ul>
<p>So libvir should be a building block for higher level management tools or

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="libvir.css" /><title>Releases</title></head><body><div id="container"><div id="intro"><div id="adjustments"></div><div id="pageHeader"></div><div id="content2"><h1 class="style1">Releases</h1><p>Here is the list of official releases, however since it is early on in the
development of libvir, it is preferable when possible to just use the <a href="download.html">CVS version or snapshot</a>, contact the mailing list
development of libvir, it is preferable when possible to just use the <a href="downloads.html">CVS version or snapshot</a>, contact the mailing list
and check the <a href="ChangeLog.html">ChangeLog</a> to gauge progresses.</p><h3>0.0.1: Dec 19 2005</h3><ul><li>First release</li>
<li>Basic management of existing Xen domains</li>
<li>Minimal autogenerated Python bindings</li>