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

© W. David Ashley 2019

W. David AshleyFoundations of Libvirt Development https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4862-1_2

2. Architecture

W. David Ashley¹ 

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Austin, TX, USA

 

This chapter describes the main principles and architecture choices behind the libvirt API and the Python libvirt module. These include the object model, the driver model, and management options. The details of these models and options are described in this chapter.

Object Model

The goal of both the libvirt API and the Python libvirt module is to provide all the functions necessary for deploying and managing virtual machines. This includes the management of both the core hypervisor functions and the host resources that are required by virtual machines, such as networking, storage, ...