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Libvirt is collection of software that provides a convenient way to
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manage virtual machines and other virtualization functionality, such as
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storage and network interface management. These software pieces include
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an API library, a daemon (libvirtd), and a command line utility (virsh).
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A primary goal of libvirt is to provide a single way to manage multiple
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different virtualization providers/hypervisors. For example, the command
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'virsh list --all' can be used to list the existing virtual machines for
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any supported hypervisor (KVM, Xen, VMWare ESX, etc.) No need to learn
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the hypervisor specific tools!
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NOTE that dependency on qemu is not enforced by this package because it brings
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lots of dependencies; to manage remote qemu/KVM host, it can be installed with:
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doas pkg_add qemu
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