libVirt Driver

libVirt is an open source long term stable C virtualization API for interaction with virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux and other operating systems. There is also a set of bindings for common languages, like Python, Perl, Java and C#, that makes dealing with libVirt very comfortable. Additionally, tools like Virtual Machine Manager or virsh use wthis API. To learn more about libVirt please click here.

Within the project group we use libVirt's functionality to interact with Xen, VMware ESX Server and Microsoft Hyper-V. Unfortunately, libVirt does not support the VMware ESX Server and Microsoft Hyper-V.

Because of the market dominance of these two vendors, we decided to extend libVirt with  drivers for VMware ESX Server and Microsoft Hyper-V. This extended libVirt version is a branch of the libVirt core project repository and will be probably added to the main project in future releases.