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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
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
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>
some of the specific concepts used in libvirt documentation:</p><ul><li>a <strong>node</strong> is a single physical machine</li>