libvirt

libvirt
Developer(s) Red Hat
Initial release December 19, 2005 (2005-12-19)
Stable release
2.4.0 / 1 November 2016 (2016-11-01)[1]
Preview release
2.4.0-rc2 / October 31, 2016 (2016-10-31)
Repository libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba%3Dsummary
Written in C
Operating system Linux
Type Library
License GNU Lesser General Public License
Website libvirt.org

libvirt is an open source API, daemon and management tool for managing platform virtualization.[2] It can be used to manage KVM, Xen, VMware ESX, QEMU and other virtualization technologies. These APIs are widely used in the orchestration layer of hypervisors in the development of a cloud-based solution.

Internals

libvirt supports several Hypervisors and is supported by several management solutions

libvirt itself is a C library, but it has bindings in other languages, notably in Python,[3] Perl,[4] OCaml,[5] Ruby,[6] Java,[7] JavaScript (via Node.js)[8] and PHP.[9] libvirt for these programming languages is composed of wrappers around another class/package called libvirtmod. libvirtmod's implementation is closely associated with its counterpart in C/C++ in syntax and functionality.

Supported Hypervisors

User Interfaces

Libvirt is used by various virtualization programs and platforms. Graphical Interfaces are provided by Virtual Machine Manager and others. The most popular command line interface is 'virsh', and higher level tools like oVirt.[12]

GNOME Boxes uses libvirt.

Corporate

Development of libvirt is backed by Red Hat,[13] with significant contributions by other organisations and individuals. Libvirt is available on most Linux distributions; remote servers are also accessible from Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows clients.[14]

See also

References

Books

External links

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