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< h1 > The virtualization API</ h1 >
< h2 > libvirt is:</ h2 >
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A toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes).
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Free software available under the
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Lesser General Public License</ a > .
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A long term stable C API
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A set of bindings for common languages
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A < a href = "CIM/" > CIM provider</ a > for the DMTF virtualization schema
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< h2 > libvirt supports:</ h2 >
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The < a href = "http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html" > Xen</ a > hypervisor
on Linux and Solaris hosts.
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The < a href = "http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/" > QEMU</ a > emulator
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The < a href = "http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki" > KVM</ a > Linux hypervisor
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The < a href = "http://lxc.sourceforge.net/" > LXC</ a > Linux container system
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The < a href = "http://openvz.org/" > OpenVZ</ a > Linux container system
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Storage on IDE/SCSI/USB disks, FibreChannel, LVM, iSCSI, NFS and filesystems
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< h2 > libvirt provides:</ h2 >
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< 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 ></ ul >
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