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The project has historically operated as a meritocratic consensus based community. Formally document what has always been an unwritten assumption amongst the community participants. Also include an explicit code of conduct to preempt any potential, but unlikely, future problems. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
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<body>
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<h1>The virtualization API</h1>
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<h2>libvirt is:</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>
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A toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
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of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes), see our
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<a href="goals.html">project goals</a> for details.
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<li>
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Free software available under the
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<a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.html">GNU
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Lesser General Public License</a>.
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</li>
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<li>
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A long term stable C API
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</li>
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<li>
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A set of bindings for common languages
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</li>
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<li>
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A <a href="CIM/">CIM provider</a> for the DMTF virtualization schema
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</li>
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<li>
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A <a href="/qpid/">QMF agent</a> for the AMQP/QPid messaging system
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</li>
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<li>
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A <a href="governance.html">technical meritocracy</a>, in which
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participants gain influence over a project through recognition
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of their contributions.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>libvirt supports:</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html">KVM/QEMU</a> Linux hypervisor
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</li>
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<li>
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvxen.html">Xen</a> hypervisor
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on Linux and Solaris hosts.
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</li>
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<li>
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvlxc.html">LXC</a> Linux container system
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</li>
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<li>
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvopenvz.html">OpenVZ</a> Linux container system
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</li>
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<li>
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvuml.html">User Mode Linux</a> paravirtualized kernel
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</li>
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<li>
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvvbox.html">VirtualBox</a> hypervisor
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</li>
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<li>
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html">VMware ESX and GSX</a> hypervisors
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</li>
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<li>
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvvmware.html">VMware Workstation and Player</a> hypervisors
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</li>
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<li>
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvhyperv.html">Microsoft Hyper-V</a> hypervisor
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</li>
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<li>
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvphyp.html">IBM PowerVM</a> hypervisor
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</li>
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<li>
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The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvparallels.html">Parallels</a> hypervisor
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</li>
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<li>
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Virtual networks using bridging, NAT, VEPA and VN-LINK.
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</li>
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<li>
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Storage on IDE/SCSI/USB disks, FibreChannel, LVM, iSCSI, NFS and filesystems
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>libvirt provides:</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Remote management using TLS encryption and x509 certificates</li>
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<li>Remote management authenticating with Kerberos and SASL</li>
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<li>Local access control using PolicyKit</li>
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<li>Zero-conf discovery using Avahi multicast-DNS</li>
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<li>Management of virtual machines, virtual networks and storage</li>
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<li>Portable client API for Linux, Solaris and Windows</li>
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</ul>
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<p class="image">
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<img src="libvirtLogo.png" alt="libvirt Logo"/>
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</p>
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</body>
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</html>
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