Documentation
Deployment / operation
- Applications
- Applications known to use libvirt
- Manual pages
- Manual pages for libvirt tools / daemons
- Windows
- Downloads for Windows
- macOS
- Working with libvirt on macOS
- Migration
- Migrating guests between machines
- Daemons
- Overview of the daemons provided by libvirt
- Remote access
- Enable remote access over TCP
- TLS certs
- Generate and deploy x509 certificates for TLS
- Authentication
- Configure authentication for the libvirt daemon
- Access control
- Configure access control libvirt APIs with polkit
- Logging
- The library and the daemon logging support
- Audit log
- Audit trail logs for host operations
- Firewall
- Firewall and network filter configuration
- Hooks
- Hooks for system specific management
- NSS module
- Enable domain host name translation to IP addresses
- FAQ
- Frequently asked questions
Application development
- API reference
- Reference manual for the C public API, split in
common,
domain,
domain checkpoint,
domain snapshot,
error,
event,
host,
interface,
network,
node device,
network filter,
secret,
storage,
stream
and
admin,
QEMU,
LXC libs
- Language bindings and API modules
- Bindings of the libvirt API for
c#,
go,
java,
ocaml,
perl,
python,
php,
ruby
and integration API modules for
D-Bus
- XML schemas
- Description of the XML schemas for
domains,
networks,
network ports,
network filtering,
storage,
storage encryption,
capabilities,
domain capabilities,
storage pool capabilities,
node devices,
secrets,
snapshots,
checkpoints,
backup jobs
- URI format
- The URI formats used for connecting to libvirt
- CGroups
- Control groups integration
- Drivers
- Hypervisor specific driver information
- Support guarantees
- Details of support status for various interfaces
- Driver support
- matrix of API support per hypervisor per release
- Knowledge Base
- Task oriented guides to key features