Internal drivers
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.
Hypervisor drivers
The hypervisor drivers currently supported by libvirt are:
- LXC - Linux Containers
- OpenVZ
- QEMU
- Test - Used for testing
- UML - User Mode Linux
- VirtualBox
- VMware ESX
- VMware Workstation/Player
- Xen
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- IBM PowerVM (phyp)
- Parallels