{"id":26249,"date":"2017-12-11T16:18:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T16:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/udsenterprise.com\/linux-hypervisors-management-libvirt\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T12:42:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T12:42:21","slug":"linux-hypervisors-management-libvirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udsenterprise.com\/en\/linux-hypervisors-management-libvirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux hypervisors management with Libvirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By default, libvirtd communicates with a local Unix domain socket, so that it only allows <strong>local communication<\/strong>. It can also be configured for TCP \/ IP sockets, so that it is accessible to clients through the network. Libvirtd runs as an independent layer, which means that the VMs do not need it to continue functioning normally.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>API<\/strong> can be shut down or restarted to perform any administration task on any type of software. As long as the VM configuration is defined in an XML file known by libvirtd, manipulating the daemon will not affect the state of the VM.<\/p>\n<p>To learn how to configure libvirtd you can have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com\/tip\/Use-libvirt-and-the-libvirtd-daemon-to-manage-your-hypervisor?utm_campaign=ssv_dcv2&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_content=1511975138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libvirt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Libvirt<\/a> facilitates the <strong>management of hypervisors and virtual machines<\/strong> (VM) in <strong>Linux<\/strong> environments. This <strong>Open Source<\/strong> API is found in any hypervisor based on Linux. Administrators can use a program to communicate with the hypervisor managed by libvirt, which will allow them <strong>to start, stop and migrate virtual machines<\/strong>. These options are available for virtual machines that run locally; for hypervisors that run on other hardware platforms you can use <strong>libvirtd daemon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[985,1023,931],"tags":[986,1024,934],"class_list":["post-26249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-news","category-linux-en","category-open-source","tag-hot-news","tag-linux-en","tag-open-source"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Linux hypervisors management with Libvirt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/udsenterprise.com\/en\/linux-hypervisors-management-libvirt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Linux hypervisors management with Libvirt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Libvirt facilitates the management of hypervisors and virtual machines (VM) in Linux environments. 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