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Foundations of Libvirt Development: How to Set Up and Maintain a Virtual Machine Environment with Python
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Foundations of Libvirt Development: How to Set Up and Maintain a Virtual Machine Environment with Python

by W. David Ashley
June 2019
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
6h 59m
English
Apress
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© W. David Ashley 2019
W. David AshleyFoundations of Libvirt Development https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4862-1_1

1. Introduction

W. David Ashley1 
(1)
Austin, TX, USA
 

Welcome to the first chapter of Foundations of Libvirt Development. In this chapter, you’ll learn what this book covers and the conventions I use throughout.

What This Book Covers

This book is about the libvirt APIs and how to work with it to control virtual machines under the QEMU/KVM system. libvirt has APIs that support many languages, but this work concentrates on the Python language exclusively.

libvirt can be used to support a number of virtual machine types, and the APIs are a common entry point to any type of virtual machine. The virtual machines that are supported include (but ...

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