virtualization-lib/libvirt

A toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes).

Versions

Slot	Version	Repository	Platforms
0	5.6.0-r2	virtualization	~amd64	arm?	armv7?	armv8?	~x86
0	4.0.0-r2	virtualization	~amd64	arm?	armv7?	armv8?	~x86

Metadata

Homepage	http://libvirt.org
Summary	A toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes)
Description	Libvirt is a library for management of virtualized operating systems. Initially supporting the Xen hypervisor, it provides a generic driver backend to allow implementations for management of arbitrary hypervisors (QEMU, UML, etc). The library aims to provide a long term stable API to isolate applications from instability in the APIs of the underlying virtualization technology. The core library API is written in C and a command line tool for shell scripting also provided. The library allows either full read-write access to the hypervisor, or for unprivileged use a secure read-only channel (eg for monitoring).
Upstream documentation	http://libvirt.org/docs.html
Dependencies	( ( build: app-misc/mmv dev-libs/libxslt[>=1.1.24] dev-lang/perl:* dev-lang/python:* dev-util/intltool sys-devel/gettext[>=0.17] virtual/pkg-config build+run: dev-libs/gnutls[>=3.0] dev-libs/libtasn1[>=1.8] dev-libs/libgcrypt[>=1.4.4] dev-libs/libgpg-error[>=1.7] dev-libs/libxml2:2.0[>=2.6.0] dev-libs/nettle:= dev-libs/nss net-dns/libidn net-libs/libnl:3.0[>=3.0] net-libs/libssh2[>=1.3] net-libs/libtirpc net-misc/curl[>=7.18.0] sys-apps/dbus[>=1.2.12-r1] x11-libs/libpciaccess[>=0.11] apparmor? ( security/apparmor ) iscsi? ( net-misc/open-iscsi[>=2.0.871] ) kvm? ( dev-libs/yajl[>=2.0.3] ) caps? ( sys-libs/libcap-ng[>=0.4.0] ) lvm? ( sys-fs/lvm2[>=2.02.54] ) lxc? ( app-virtualization/lxc sys-fs/fuse:0[>=2.8.6] ) pcap? ( dev-libs/libpcap[>=0.9.8] ) pm-utils? ( sys-power/pm-utils ) polkit? ( dev-libs/expat[>=2.0.1] sys-auth/polkit:1 ) raw? ( sys-fs/parted[>=1.8.8][device-mapper] ) sasl? ( net-libs/cyrus-sasl[>=2.1.26] ) systemd? ( sys-apps/systemd[>=209] ) xattr? ( sys-apps/attr ) providers:libressl? ( dev-libs/libressl:= ) providers:openssl? ( dev-libs/openssl:= ) run: kvm? ( app-virtualization/qemu ) network? ( net-firewall/iptables sys-apps/iproute2 ) test: app-admin/augeas recommendation: network? ( net-dns/dnsmasq[>=2.49] ) suggestion: net-firewall/ebtables net/netcat-openbsd sys-apps/dmidecode polkit? ( group/libvirt ) ) ( build: sys-devel/libtool sys-devel/autoconf:2.5 sys-devel/automake:1.16 ) )
Downloads	http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-5.6.0.tar.xz
Licences	LGPL-2.1

Choices

OPTIONS

apparmor	Enable integration with Apparmor (install profiles etc.)
caps	Use libcap-ng to reduce libvirtd privileges
debug	Enable debugging output
iscsi	Enable the iSCSI storage driver
kvm	Enable the kvm/qemu interface
lvm	Enable the LVM storage driver
lxc	Enable support for LinuX Containers (LXC)
network	Enable the virtual network driver
pcap	Enable networking optimisations using libpcap
pm-utils	use pm-utils for power management
polkit	Use polkit for UNIX socket access checks and password-less access (for the libvirt group)
raw	Enable the disk storage driver using parted
sasl	Use cyrus SASL for authentication
scsi	Enable the scsi storage driver
systemd	Add support for integration with the systemd init daemon
virtualbox	Enable the Virtualbox interface
vmware	Enable the VMware interface
xattr	Adds support for Extended File Attributes

providers

libressl	Use LibreSSL as the SSL provider
openssl	Use OpenSSL as the SSL provider

parts

openrc	OpenRC service files