Hello, I am wondering what is the difference between libvirt and qemu?and how they are related to KVM? -- Ahmed Amer **+2 0111 0353505
Daniel P. Berrange
2013-Jun-27 12:55 UTC
Re: [libvirt-users] question about libvirt and qemu
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:54:05PM +0100, Ahmed Amer wrote:> Hello, > I am wondering what is the difference between libvirt and qemu?and how they > are related to KVM?Libvirt is a library API providing the ability to manager a number of virtualizaton technologies, including Xen, QEMU, KVM, VMWare, etc. QEMU is a virtual machine & CPU emulator. KVM is a kernel hypervisor providing hardware acceleration for QEMU virtual machine CPUs. Virtio is an accelerated I/O layer for disk, networking & other misc devices. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|