The virtualization API

Introduction

The libvirt project:

• is a toolkit to manage virtualization platforms
• is accessible from C, Python, Perl, Java and more
• is licensed under open source licenses
• supports KVM, QEMU, Xen, Virtuozzo, VMWare ESX, LXC, BHyve and more
• targets Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and OS-X
• is used by many applications

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New contributors

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Security vulnerabilities

View security notices and report vulnerabilities to the libvirt security response team

Bug reporting

View and report bugs in libvirt packages

XML configuration

Description of the XML schemas for domains, networks, network filtering, storage, storage encryption, capabilities, domain capabilities, storage pool capabilities, node devices, secrets, snapshots

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