libvirt is: + A toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of operating systems, see our project goals for details. + A long term stable C API + A set of bindings for common languages + A CIM provider for the DMTF virtualization schema + A QMF agent for the AMQP/QPid messaging system libvirt supports: + The KVM/QEMU Linux hypervisor + The Xen hypervisor + The LXC Linux container system + The OpenVZ Linux container system + The User Mode Linux paravirtualized kernel + The VirtualBox hypervisor + The VMware ESX and GSX hypervisors + The VMware Workstation and Player hypervisors + Virtual networks using bridging, NAT, VEPA and VN-LINK. + Storage on IDE/SCSI/USB disks, FibreChannel, LVM, iSCSI, NFS and filesystems libvirt provides: + Remote management using TLS encryption and x509 certificates + Remote management authenticating with Kerberos and SASL + Local access control using PolicyKit + Zero-conf discovery using Avahi multicast-DNS + Management of virtual machines, virtual networks and storage
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