<?xml version="1.0"?> <html> <body> <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), see our <a href="goals.html">project goals</a> for details. </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://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html">KVM/QEMU</a> Linux hypervisor </li> <li> The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvxen.html">Xen</a> hypervisor on Linux and Solaris hosts. </li> <li> The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvlxc.html">LXC</a> Linux container system </li> <li> The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvopenvz.html">OpenVZ</a> Linux container system </li> <li> The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvuml.html">User Mode Linux</a> paravirtualized kernel </li> <li> The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvvbox.html">VirtualBox</a> hypervisor </li> <li> The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html">VMware ESX and GSX</a> hypervisors </li> <li> The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvvmware.html">VMware Workstation and Player</a> hypervisors </li> <li> The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvhyperv.html">Microsoft Hyper-V</a> hypervisor </li> <li> Virtual networks using bridging, NAT, VEPA and VN-LINK. </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> </body> </html>