Node-libvirt - The virtualization API bindings for NodeJS

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Libvirt is a toolkit to interact with virtualization capabilities of recent versions of GNU/Linux (and other OSes). (reference: Libvirt)

Node-Libvirt is a set of bindings to Libvirt API, which allows to use it from Javascript.

Virtualization Technologies Supported

• The Xen hypervisor on Linux and Solaris hosts.
• QEMU emulator
• KVM Linux hypervisor
• LXC Linux container system
• OpenVZ Linux container system
• User Mode Linux paravirtualized kernel
• VirtualBox hypervisor
• VMware ESX and GSX hypervisors
• IBM Power Hypervisor

Capabilities

• Management of virtual machines, virtual networks and storage
• Remote management using TLS encryption and x509 certificates
• Remote management authenticating with Kerberos and SASL
• Local access control using PolicyKit
• Zero-conf discovery using Avahi multicast-DNS
• Support for storage on IDE/SCSI/USB disks, FibreChannel, LVM, iSCSI, NFS and filesystems

Installation

You must have NodeJS and Libvirt already installed to be able to build node-libvirt.

Get and Install node-libvirt

$ git clone git://github.com/c4milo/node-libvirt.git
$ cd node-libvirt
$ node-gyp configure
$ node-gyp build

Use node-libvirt in your project

From node-libvirt's folder:

$ npm link

From your app's folder:

$ npm link libvirt

Example of use

For now please take a look at the tests.

API

Work in progress at docs page

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright 2014 Camilo Aguilar. All rights reserved.

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