Applications known to use libvirt

Manual pages for libvirt tools / daemons

Downloads for Windows

Working with libvirt on macOS

Migrating guests between machines

Overview of the daemons provided by libvirt

Enable remote access over TCP

Generate and deploy x509 certificates for TLS

Configure authentication for the libvirt daemon

Configure access control libvirt APIs with polkit

The library and the daemon logging support

Audit trail logs for host operations

Firewall and network filter configuration

Hooks for system specific management

Enable domain host name translation to IP addresses

Frequently asked questions

Reference manual for the C public API, split in common, domain, domain checkpoint, domain snapshot, error, event, host, interface, network, node device, network filter, secret, storage, stream and admin, QEMU, LXC libs

Bindings of the libvirt API for c#, go (all go modules), java, ocaml, perl, python, php, ruby and integration API modules for D-Bus

Description of the XML schemas for domains, networks, network ports, network filtering, storage, storage encryption, capabilities, domain capabilities, storage pool capabilities, node devices, secrets, snapshots, checkpoints, backup jobs

The URI formats used for connecting to libvirt

Control groups integration

Hypervisor specific driver information

Details of support status for various interfaces

matrix of API support per hypervisor per release

Task oriented guides to key features

General hacking guidelines for contributors

Style guidelines for reStructuredText docs

Sets a vision for future direction & technical choices

Details on our Continuous Integration

Outlines the process of handling issues as well as describes the supported issue types along with their life cycle.

How and where to report bugs and request features

How to compile libvirt

Terminology and goals of libvirt API

The libvirt API concepts

Adding new public libvirt APIs

Details various types of testing available for libvirt

Procedure for configuring new git repositories for libvirt

Libvirt logo files and guideline how to use them