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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).
</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://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html">Xen</a> hypervisor
on Linux and Solaris hosts.
</li>
<li>
The <a href="http://bellard.org/qemu/">QEMU</a> emulator
</li>
<li>
The <a href="http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki">KVM</a> Linux hypervisor
</li>
<li>
The <a href="http://lxc.sourceforge.net/">LXC</a> Linux container system
</li>
<li>
The <a href="http://openvz.org/">OpenVZ</a> Linux container system
</li>
<li>
The <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User Mode Linux</a> paravirtualized kernel
</li>
<li>
The <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/">VirtualBox</a> hypervisor
</li>
<li>
The <a href="http://www.vmware.com/">VMware ESX and GSX</a> hypervisors
</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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