libvirt

libvirt
Developer(s) Red Hat
Initial release December 19, 2005 (2005-12-19)[1]
Stable release
4.0.0 / 19 January 2018 (2018-01-19)[2]
Repository Edit this at Wikidata
Written in C
Operating system Linux
Type Library
License GNU Lesser General Public License
Website libvirt.org

libvirt is an open-source API, daemon and management tool for managing platform virtualization.[3] It can be used to manage KVM, Xen, VMware ESX, QEMU and other virtualization technologies. These APIs are widely used in the orchestration layer of hypervisors in the development of a cloud-based solution.

Internals

libvirt supports several Hypervisors and is supported by several management solutions

libvirt is a C library with bindings in other languages, notably in Python,[4] Perl,[5] OCaml,[6] Ruby,[7] Java,[8] JavaScript (via Node.js)[9] and PHP.[10] libvirt for these programming languages is composed of wrappers around another class/package called libvirtmod. libvirtmod's implementation is closely associated with its counterpart in C/C++ in syntax and functionality.

Supported Hypervisors

User Interfaces

Various virtualization programs and platforms use libvirt. Virtual Machine Manager and others provide graphical interfaces. The most popular command line interface is virsh, and higher level tools such as oVirt.[13]

GNOME Boxes uses libvirt.

Corporate

Development of libvirt is backed by Red Hat,[14] with significant contributions by other organisations and individuals. Libvirt is available on most Linux distributions; remote servers are also accessible from Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows clients.[15]

See also

References

  1. "0.0.1: Dec 19 2005". libvirt. 2017-06-16. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
  2. "v4.0.0 (2018-01-19)". libvirt. 2018-01-19. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
  3. "libvirt home page description".
  4. "Python bindings".
  5. "Perl bindings".
  6. "OCaml bindings".
  7. "Ruby bindings".
  8. "Java bindings".
  9. "Node.js module".
  10. "PHP bindings".
  11. http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2011/08/15/kvm-on-illumos/
  12. https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve#line-19
  13. "oVirt Virtualization Management Platform".
  14. "Innovation Without Disruption: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Now Available".
  15. "Windows availability".

Books

  • Warnke, Robert; Ritzau, Thomas. qemu-kvm & libvirt (in German). Norderstedt, Germany: Books on Demand. ISBN 978-3-8370-0876-0.
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