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Libvirt allows to manage different Virtualization solutions such as KVM and Xen through a common (programming and user) Interface.
For general discussion about libvirt based virtualization join the pkg-libvirt-discuss list.
Tools and programs
Tools available in Debian using libvirt are:
virt-manager - a graphical virtual machine manager
- create/manage virtual machines
- create/manage the networks your vms are connected to
- create/manage the storage your vms use
virt-viewer - connect to the graphical display of your virtual machine via VNC
virtinst - create new virtual machines on the commandline
libvirt-bin - commandline tools to manage virtual machines
virt-top - top like display of vitual machines
You may also have a look at OpenNebula which relies on libvirt to manage VMs on its cloud nodes.
Language Bindings
Libvirt language bindings are available for
C: libvirt-dev
Perl: libsys-virt-perl
Python: python-libvirt
OCaml: libvirt-ocaml
Ruby: libvirt-ruby
Bugreports/Debugging
Documentation
The libvirt documentation is in the libvirt-doc package. If installed it can be found in */usr/share/doc/libvirt-doc/index.html*.
The online version at libvirt.org.
Tutorials and User's Guides
Ubuntu Community documentation
How-to Forge tutorial using bridged networking
Questions
Please see the pkg-libvirt Debian Libvirt Maintainers page or contact <pkg-libvirt-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org>.