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Libvirt is commonly used by installations which need to support both Xen Project and KVM hypervisors. It is also used by companies like Oracle and SUSE in their OpenStack-based cloud offerings. |
Libvirt is commonly used by installations which need to support both Xen Project and KVM hypervisors. It is also used by companies like Oracle and SUSE in their OpenStack-based cloud offerings. |
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Also, the [Xen4CentOS] effort includes an updated version of libvirt. |
Also, the [[Xen4CentOS]] effort includes an updated version of libvirt. |
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== BLOG POSTS == |
== BLOG POSTS == |
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Revision as of 22:10, 30 September 2014
The virtualization API libvirt is a toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It has support for the Xen Project hypervisor, including a libxenlight port
The current URI syntax for libvirt can be found here. This is worth noting, as some older Xen-specific URI patterns have been deprecated in favor of a newer, generalized syntax.
WHO USES LIBVIRT?
Libvirt is commonly used by installations which need to support both Xen Project and KVM hypervisors. It is also used by companies like Oracle and SUSE in their OpenStack-based cloud offerings.
Also, the Xen4CentOS effort includes an updated version of libvirt.
BLOG POSTS
- Libvirt support for the XL toolkit by Jim Fehlig
