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Dave Allan e5adda7e6b website: Point main page links to libvirt driver pages
The "libvirt supports:" section on the main page of libvirt.org
contains a list of hypervisors with links that point to the sites of
the underlying virt technologies.  The entry for KVM points to
http://www.linux-kvm.org/, for example.  People coming to libvirt.org
for the first time are likely to know about those sites, and they're
probably interested in how libvirt manages those technologies.  This
patch points those links to the libvirt driver pages instead.  It also
consolidates KVM and QEMU as there is only one libvirt driver page for
them.  Finally, it adds a line about networking support.

v2: incorporate Eric's feedback adding project links to driver pages.

website: Add project links to KVM/QEMU driver page
website: Add project links to Xen driver page
website: Add project links to LXC driver page
website: Add project links to OpenVZ driver page
website: Add project links to UML driver page
website: Add project links to Virtualbox driver page
website: Add project links to ESX driver page
website: Add project links to VMware driver page
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<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>
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>
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<img src="libvirtLogo.png" alt="libvirt Logo"/>
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