A toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux, and other OSes. libvirt provides: * Remote management using TLS encryption and x509 certificates * Remote management authenticating with Kerberos and SASL * Local access control using PolicyKit * Zero-conf discovery using Avahi multicast-DNS * Management of virtual machines, virtual networks and storage * Portable client API for Linux, Solaris and Windows WWW: https://libvirt.org/