libvirt
Sign in to savelibvirt is an open-source API, daemon and management tool for managing platform virtualization. It can be used to manage KVM, Xen, VMware ESXi, QEMU and other virtualization technologies. These APIs are widely used in the orchestration layer of hypervisors in the development of a cloud-based solution.
Key facts
- Software.name
- libvirt
- Software.logo
- Libvirt logo.svg
- Software.developer
- Red Hat
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, macOS
- Software.genre
- Library
- Software.license
- GNU Lesser General Public License
- Software.logo_size
- 250px
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- software library
- Official website
- www.libvirt.org
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- copyright license
- GNU General Public License, version 2.0
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/libvirt
- programmed in
- Q15777
- software version identifier
- 12.2.0
- Commons category
- Libvirt
- source code repository URL
- gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt
- operating system
- Linux
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Internals
- Supported Hypervisors
- User Interfaces
- Corporate
- See also
- References
- Books
- External links
libvirt is an open-source API, daemon and management tool for managing platform virtualization. It can be used to manage KVM, Xen, VMware ESXi, 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== thumb|300px|libvirt supports several Hypervisors and is supported by several management solutions
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