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    <h1>The virtualization API</h1>

    <h2>libvirt is:</h2>

    <ul>
      <li>
	A toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
	of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes).
      </li>
      <li>
	Free software available under the
	<a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.html">GNU
	  Lesser General Public License</a>.
      </li>

      <li>
	A long term stable C API
      </li>
      <li>
	A set of bindings for common languages
      </li>
      <li>
	A <a href="CIM/">CIM provider</a> for the DMTF virtualization schema
      </li>
    </ul>

    <h2>libvirt supports:</h2>

    <ul>
      <li>
	The <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html">Xen</a> hypervisor
	on Linux and Solaris hosts.
      </li>
      <li>
	The <a href="http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/">QEMU</a> emulator
      </li>
      <li>
	The <a href="http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki">KVM</a> Linux hypervisor
      </li>
      <li>
	The <a href="http://lxc.sourceforge.net/">LXC</a> Linux container system
      </li>
      <li>
	The <a href="http://openvz.org/">OpenVZ</a> Linux container system
      </li>
      <li>
	Storage on IDE/SCSI/USB disks, FibreChannel, LVM, iSCSI, NFS and filesystems
      </li>
    </ul>

    <h2>libvirt provides:</h2>

    <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>

    <p class="image">
      <img src="libvirtLogo.png" alt="libvirt Logo"/>
    </p>
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