The virtualization API
Introduction
The libvirt project:
- is a toolkit to manage virtualization platforms
- is accessible from C, Python, Perl, Java and more
- is licensed under open source licenses
- supports KVM, QEMU, Xen, Virtuozzo, VMWare ESX, LXC, BHyve and more
- targets Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and OS-X
- is used by many applications
Recent / forthcoming release changes
Quick Links
- New contributors
- Get involved in the libvirt community & student outreach programs
- Security vulnerabilities
- View security notices and report vulnerabilities to the libvirt security response team
- Bug reporting
- View and report bugs in libvirt packages
- XML configuration
- Description of the XML schemas for domains, networks, network filtering, storage, storage encryption, capabilities, domain capabilities, storage pool capabilities, node devices, secrets, snapshots
- Wiki
- Read further community contributed content