1 <?xml version=
"1.0" encoding=
"UTF-8"?>
3 <html xmlns=
"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
5 <h1>Internal drivers
</h1>
8 <li><a href=
"#hypervisor">Hypervisor drivers
</a></li>
9 <li><a href=
"storage.html">Storage drivers
</a></li>
10 <li><a href=
"drvnodedev.html">Node device driver
</a></li>
14 The libvirt public API delegates its implementation to one or
15 more internal drivers, depending on the
<a href=
"uri.html">connection URI
</a>
16 passed when initializing the library. There is always a hypervisor driver
17 active, and if the libvirt daemon is available there will usually be a
18 network and storage driver active.
21 <h2><a id=
"hypervisor">Hypervisor drivers
</a></h2>
24 The hypervisor drivers currently supported by libvirt are:
28 <li><strong><a href=
"drvlxc.html">LXC
</a></strong> - Linux Containers
</li>
29 <li><strong><a href=
"drvopenvz.html">OpenVZ
</a></strong></li>
30 <li><strong><a href=
"drvqemu.html">QEMU
</a></strong></li>
31 <li><strong><a href=
"drvtest.html">Test
</a></strong> - Used for testing
</li>
32 <li><strong><a href=
"drvvbox.html">VirtualBox
</a></strong></li>
33 <li><strong><a href=
"drvesx.html">VMware ESX
</a></strong></li>
34 <li><strong><a href=
"drvvmware.html">VMware Workstation/Player
</a></strong></li>
35 <li><strong><a href=
"drvxen.html">Xen
</a></strong></li>
36 <li><strong><a href=
"drvhyperv.html">Microsoft Hyper-V
</a></strong></li>
37 <li><strong><a href=
"drvphyp.html">IBM PowerVM (phyp)
</a></strong></li>
38 <li><strong><a href=
"drvvirtuozzo.html">Virtuozzo
</a></strong></li>
39 <li><strong><a href=
"drvbhyve.html">Bhyve
</a></strong> - The BSD Hypervisor
</li>