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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>
      <li>
        A <a href="governance.html">technical meritocracy</a>, in which
        participants gain influence over a project through recognition
        of their contributions.
      </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>
        The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvhyperv.html">Microsoft Hyper-V</a> hypervisor
      </li>
      <li>
        The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvphyp.html">IBM PowerVM</a> hypervisor
      </li>
      <li>
        The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvparallels.html">Parallels</a> hypervisor
      </li>
      <li>
        The <a href="http://libvirt.org/drvbhyve.html">Bhyve</a> hypervisor
      </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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