The libvirt project:
is a toolkit to manage virtualization platforms
is accessible from C, Python, Perl, Go and more
is licensed under open source licenses
supports KVM, Hypervisor.framework, QEMU, Xen, Virtuozzo, VMware ESX, LXC, BHyve and more
is used by many applications
Recent / forthcoming release changes
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Description of the XML schemas for domains, networks, network filtering, storage, storage encryption, capabilities, domain capabilities, storage pool capabilities, node devices, secrets, snapshots, checkpoints, backup jobs
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