libvirt

node-libvirt - The virtualization API bindings for [NodeJS][nodejs_home]
=============


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

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

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* The [Xen][xen_home] hypervisor on Linux and Solaris hosts.
* [QEMU][qemu_home] emulator
* [KVM][kvm_home] Linux hypervisor
* [LXC][lxc_home] Linux container system
* [OpenVZ][openvz_home] Linux container system
* [User Mode Linux][user_mode_linux_home] paravirtualized kernel
* [VirtualBox][virtualbox_home] hypervisor
* [VMware ESX and GSX][vmware_home] hypervisors
* [IBM Power][phyp_home] Hypervisor

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* 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][nodejs_dev] and [Libvirt][libvirt_dev] already installed to be able to build node-libvirt.

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$ sudo apt-get install libvirt-dev
$ git clone git://github.com/hooklift/node-libvirt.git
$ cd node-libvirt
$ npm install OR ( node-gyp configure && node-gyp build )

Example of use

For now please take a look at the tests.

API

Work in progress at [docs page][docs_link]

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright 2016 node-libvirt Authors. All rights reserved.

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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
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[nodejs_home]: http://www.nodejs.org
[nodejs_dev]: http://github.com/ry/node
[libvirt_home]: http://www.libvirt.org
[libvirt_dev]: http://libvirt.org/deployment.html
[xen_home]: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html
[qemu_home]: http://wiki.qemu.org/Index.html
[kvm_home]: http://www.linux-kvm.org
[lxc_home]: http://lxc.sourceforge.net/
[openvz_home]: http://openvz.org/
[user_mode_linux_home]: http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/
[virtualbox_home]: http://www.virtualbox.org/
[vmware_home]: http://www.vmware.com/
[wiki_examples]: http://github.com/c4milo/node-libvirt/wikis/examples
[wiki_api]: http://github.com/c4milo/node-libvirt/wikis/api
[docs_link]: http://github.com/c4milo/node-libvirt/blob/master/API.md
[phyp_home]: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/LinuxP/POWER5+Hypervisor