Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
libvirt-dbus wraps libvirt API to provide a high-level object-oriented API better suited for dbus-based applications.
libvirt-dbus is Free Software and licenced under LGPLv2+.
The latest official releases can be found at:
NB: at this time, libvirt-dbus is NOT considered API/ABI stable. Future releases may still include API/ABI incompatible changes.
The packages required to build libvirt-dbus are
- libvirt
- libvirt-glib
- glib2
libvirt-dbus uses GNU Autotools build system, so the build & install process is fairly simple. For example, to install as root user:
# ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfigdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
# make
# make install
or to install as unprivileged user:
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
$ make
$ make install
Patch submissions are welcomed from any interested contributor. Please send them to the main libvir-list mailing list
Questions about usage / deployment can be send to the end users mailing list
For further information about mailing lists & contacting the developers, please consult