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<htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="libvirt.css"/><linkrel="SHORTCUT ICON"href="/32favicon.png"/><title>Introduction</title></head><body><divid="container"><divid="intro"><divid="adjustments"></div><divid="pageHeader"></div><divid="content2"><h1class="style1">Introduction</h1><p>Libvir is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of
<htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="libvirt.css"/><linkrel="SHORTCUT ICON"href="/32favicon.png"/><title>Introduction</title></head><body><divid="container"><divid="intro"><divid="adjustments"></div><divid="pageHeader"></div><divid="content2"><h1class="style1">Introduction</h1><p>Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of
recent versions of Linux (and other OSes), but libvirt won't try to provide
all possible interfaces for interacting with the virtualization features.</p><p>To avoid ambiguity about the terms used here here are the definitions for
some of the specific concepts used in libvirt documentation:</p><ul><li>a <strong>node</strong> is a single physical machine</li>