libvirt/docs/drivers.rst

Internal drivers

• Hypervisor drivers
• Storage drivers
• Node device driver
• Secret driver

The libvirt public API delegates its implementation to one or more internal drivers, depending on the connection URI passed when initializing the library. There is always a hypervisor driver active, and if the libvirt daemon is available there will usually be a network and storage driver active.

Hypervisor drivers

The hypervisor drivers currently supported by libvirt are:

• LXC - Linux Containers
• OpenVZ
• QEMU
• Test - Used for testing
• VirtualBox
• VMware ESX
• VMware Workstation/Player
• Xen
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Virtuozzo
• Bhyve - The BSD Hypervisor
• Cloud Hypervisor