<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <!-- This file is autogenerated from index.html.in Do not edit this file. Changes will be lost. --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css" /> <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="32favicon.png" /> <title>libvirt: The virtualization API</title> <meta name="description" content="libvirt, virtualization, virtualization API" /> </head> <body> <div id="header"> <div id="headerLogo"></div> <div id="headerSearch"> <form action="search.php" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="get"><div> <input id="query" name="query" type="text" size="12" value="" /> <input id="submit" name="submit" type="submit" value="Search" /> </div></form> </div> </div> <div id="body"> <div id="menu"> <ul class="l0"><li> <div> <span class="active">Home</span> </div> </li><li> <div> <a title="Details of new features and bugs fixed in each release" class="inactive" href="news.html">News</a> </div> </li><li> <div> <a title="Get the latest source releases, binary builds and get access to the source repository" class="inactive" href="downloads.html">Downloads</a> </div> </li><li> <div> <a title="Information for users, administrators and developers" class="inactive" href="docs.html">Documentation</a> </div> </li><li> <div> <a title="User contributed content" class="inactive" href="http://wiki.libvirt.org">Wiki</a> </div> </li><li> <div> <a title="Frequently asked questions" class="inactive" href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a> </div> </li><li> <div> <a title="How and where to report bugs and request features" class="inactive" href="bugs.html">Bug reports</a> </div> </li><li> <div> <a title="How to contact the developers via email and IRC" class="inactive" href="contact.html">Contact</a> </div> </li><li> <div> <a title="Miscellaneous links of interest related to libvirt" class="inactive" href="relatedlinks.html">Related Links</a> </div> </li><li> <div> <a title="Overview of all content on the website" class="inactive" href="sitemap.html">Sitemap</a> </div> </li></ul> </div> <div id="content"> <h1>The virtualization API</h1> <h2>libvirt is:</h2> <ul><li> A toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). </li><li> Free software available under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.html">GNU Lesser General Public License</a>. </li><li> A long term stable C API </li><li> A set of bindings for common languages </li><li> A <a href="CIM/">CIM provider</a> for the DMTF virtualization schema </li><li> A <a href="/qpid/">QMF agent</a> for the AMQP/QPid messaging system </li></ul> <h2>libvirt supports:</h2> <ul><li> The <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html">Xen</a> hypervisor on Linux and Solaris hosts. </li><li> The <a href="http://bellard.org/qemu/">QEMU</a> emulator </li><li> The <a href="http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki">KVM</a> Linux hypervisor </li><li> The <a href="http://lxc.sourceforge.net/">LXC</a> Linux container system </li><li> The <a href="http://openvz.org/">OpenVZ</a> Linux container system </li><li> The <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User Mode Linux</a> paravirtualized kernel </li><li> The <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/">VirtualBox</a> hypervisor </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 multicast-DNS</li><li>Management of virtual machines, virtual networks and storage</li><li>Portable client API for Linux, Solaris and Windows</li></ul> <p class="image"> <img src="libvirtLogo.png" alt="libvirt Logo" /></p> </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>