Libvirt

virtualization abstraction library

Technologies
c, python, xen, kvm, virtualization
Topics
virtualization, cloud, libraries, virtual machine
https://libvirt.org/
virtualization abstraction library

The libvirt project provides an API for managing the capabilities of many virtualization technologies, including KVM, QEMU, LXC, Xen, VMWare ESX, Parallels, OpenVZ, VirtualBox, Hyper-V and more. It includes bindings into many programming languages and mappings to SNMP, CIM, and GObject.

Libvirt is a library used by many applications with very different use cases like Jenkins, OpenStack, libguestfs, Munin, oVirt, Kimchi, virt-manager or Cuckoo.

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Contributor
Ilias Stamatis
Mentor
Pavel Hrdina, Erik Skultety
Organization
Libvirt
Expand libvirt test driver API coverage
The libvirt library provides a stable API for managing platform virtualization utilizing different hypervisors or virtual machine monitors. Each...
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Contributor
Hiroyuki Katsura
Mentor
Martin Kletzander, Richard Jones, Pino Toscano
Organization
Libvirt
Create Rust bindings for libguestfs
Libguestfs provides a set of tools for communicating with virtual machine disk images. By using this, you can view or edit a file on almost any disk...
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Contributor
Athina Plaskasoviti
Mentor
Cole Robinson, Pavel Hrdina, Fabiano Fidêncio
Organization
Libvirt
Cloud-init configuration for virt-install/virt-manager
Cloud-init configuration through virt-install/virt-manager input arguments at VM initial setup. Cloud-init is a package that contains utilities for...
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