Virtualization API之libvirt

The virtualization API 之开源 libvirt探究 By Ruiy:

libvirt supports Hypervisors(注,相关的hypervisors项目的权威网站已经加入到链接中,感兴趣探究):

• The KVM/QEMU Linux hypervisor
• The Xen hypervisor on Linux and Solaris hosts.
• The LXC Linux container system
• The OpenVZ Linux container system
• The User Mode Linux paravirtualized kernel
• The VirtualBox hypervisor
• The VMware ESX and GSX hypervisors
• The VMware Workstation and Player hypervisors
• The Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor
• The IBM PowerVM hypervisor
• The Parallels hypervisor
• The Bhyve hypervisor
• Virtual networks using bridging, NAT, VEPA and VN-LINK.
• Storage on IDE/SCSI/USB disks, FibreChannel, LVM, iSCSI, NFS and filesystems

libvirt provides:

• Remote management using TLS(Transport Layer Security) encryption and x509 certificates (即,libvirt管理远程来宾OS采用TLS加密及2509证书)
• Remote management authenticating with Kerberos and SASL(Simple Authentication And Security Layer)
• Local access control using PolicyKit(dbus,sudo)
• Zero-conf discovery using Avahi multicast-DNS
• Management of virtual machines, virtual networks and storage
• Portable client API for Linux, Solaris and Windows

http://www.libvirt.org/virshcmdref.html