The libvirt public API delegates its implementation to one or more internal drivers, depending on the connection URI 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.
The hypervisor drivers currently supported by libvirt are:
- LXC - Linux Containers
- OpenVZ
- QEMU/KVM/HVF
- Test - Used for testing
- VirtualBox
- VMware ESX
- VMware Workstation/Player
- Xen
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Virtuozzo
- Bhyve - The BSD Hypervisor
- Cloud Hypervisor