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<p>Libvir is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of
recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software available
under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.html">GNU
Lesser General Public License</a>. Virtualization of the Linux Operating
System means the ability to run multiple instances of Operating Systems
concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic resources are driven
by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing long term stable C API
initially for the <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html">Xen
paravirtualization</a> but should be able to integrate other virtualization
mechanisms if needed.</p>
<p> If you get lost searching for some specific API use, try
<a href="http://libvirt.org/search.php">the online search
engine</a> hosted on <a href="http://libvirt.org/">libvirt.org</a>
it indexes the project page, the APIs as well as the mailing-list archives. </p>
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