Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
Go to file
John Levon ce9c9e315f meson: correct git detection
The current "building from git" test uses "test -d .git"; however, that
doesn't work when libvirt is used as a submodule, as in that case .git
is a normal file. Use "test -e .git" instead.

Signed-off-by: John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2024-07-24 12:41:58 +02:00
.ctags.d
.github/workflows github: Update lockdown message when opening a PR 2024-05-15 12:31:23 +02:00
.gitlab/issue_templates gitlab: issue_template: Remove labelling commands 2022-06-01 12:27:10 +02:00
build-aux virshtest: Prepare for testing against output files 2024-04-02 14:24:30 +02:00
ci ci: Refresh generated files 2024-07-15 15:20:50 +02:00
docs docs: use real examples for QEMU cli passthrough 2024-07-22 14:43:57 +01:00
examples examples: Define _GNU_SOURCE for more examples 2024-02-07 18:01:03 +01:00
include Include support for Vfio stats during Migration 2024-07-10 12:28:55 +02:00
po Translated using Weblate (Portuguese (Brazil)) 2024-07-22 15:38:39 +02:00
scripts scripts/rpcgen: skip tests if tirpc is not present 2024-05-08 15:57:13 +01:00
src security: AppArmor allow write when os loader readonly=no 2024-07-19 16:03:05 +02:00
subprojects Move src/keycodemapdb -> subprojects/keycodemapdb 2023-04-17 15:02:38 +02:00
tests tests: Add test for UEFI autoselection on riscv64 2024-07-19 15:18:41 +02:00
tools virt-host-validate: Allow longer list of CPU flags 2024-07-23 13:58:53 +02:00
.ctags
.dir-locals.el
.editorconfig
.gitattributes Add .gitattributes file 2022-03-17 14:33:12 +01:00
.gitignore Revert ".gitignore: Ignore cscope and other *tags files" 2023-02-08 17:24:31 +01:00
.gitlab_pages_redirects docs: gitlab redirects: Drop '/libvirt' prefix for hosting the web through gitlab pages 2024-02-13 16:56:49 +01:00
.gitlab-ci.yml gitlab: add missing job inheritance for codestyle 2024-06-17 11:36:00 +01:00
.gitmodules Move src/keycodemapdb -> subprojects/keycodemapdb 2023-04-17 15:02:38 +02:00
.gitpublish gitpublish: Tweak prefix 2023-12-05 11:48:28 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: consolidate my email addresses 2020-10-06 12:05:09 +02:00
AUTHORS.rst.in AUTHORS: change my (Nikolay Shirokovskiy) email 2022-04-06 11:00:53 +03:00
config.h configure: bump min required CLang to 6.0 / XCode 10.0 2022-01-17 10:44:29 +00:00
configmake.h.in
CONTRIBUTING.rst
COPYING
COPYING.LESSER
gitdm.config
libvirt-admin.pc.in
libvirt-lxc.pc.in
libvirt-qemu.pc.in
libvirt.pc.in
libvirt.spec.in meson: allow systemd sysusersdir to be changed 2024-06-13 10:23:11 +01:00
meson_options.txt network: introduce a "none" firewall backend type 2024-06-17 15:55:14 +01:00
meson.build meson: correct git detection 2024-07-24 12:41:58 +02:00
NEWS.rst news: Mention pauth Arm CPU feature 2024-07-15 13:08:17 +02:00
README.rst docs: update docs pointing to old mailing list addrs 2023-10-31 10:04:27 +00:00
run.in run.in: Detect binaries in builddir properly 2024-06-04 14:39:00 +02:00

GitLab CI Build Status

CII Best Practices

Translation status

Libvirt API for virtualization

Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.

For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.

Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.

Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:

https://libvirt.org

License

The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code that are not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU General Public License, version 2.0 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.

Installation

Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:

https://libvirt.org/compiling.html

Contributing

The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:

https://libvirt.org/contribute.html

Contact

The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:

Further details on contacting the project are available on the website:

https://libvirt.org/contact.html