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        <h1>Internal drivers</h1>
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      The libvirt public API delegates its implementation to one or
      more internal drivers, depending on the <a href="uri.html">connection URI</a>
      passed when initializing the library. There is always a hypervisor driver
      active, and if the libvirt daemon is available there will usually be a
      network and storage driver active.
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        <h2>Hypervisor drivers</h2>
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      The hypervisor drivers currently supported by libvirt are:
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        <ul><li><strong><a href="drvxen.html">Xen</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="drvqemu.html">QEMU</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="drvlxc.html">LXC</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="drvtest.html">Test</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="drvopenvz.html">OpenVZ</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="drvvbox.html">VirtualBox</a></strong></li><li><strong><a href="drvone.html">OpenNebula</a></strong></li></ul>
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