macOS
Homebrewvérifié · 100%
brew install libvirtlocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsvérifié · 94%
sudo port install libvirtMacPorts ports tree · sysutils/libvirt/Portfile · Source: api.github.com
brew
Installer libvirt avec Homebrew, apk, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, apt
Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de libvirt pour les workflows d'agents IA.
installation
Commandes d'installation supplémentaires
Linux
Alpine Linux apkvérifié · 92%
sudo apk add libvirtAlpine Linux edge package indexes · libvirt · Source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Fedora dnfvérifié · 92%
sudo dnf install libvirtFedora Rawhide package metadata · libvirt · Source: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixvérifié · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#libvirtnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/li/libvirt/package.nix · Source: api.github.com
Arch Linux pacmanvérifié · 92%
sudo pacman -S libvirtArch Linux sync databases · libvirt · Source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
openSUSE zyppervérifié · 92%
sudo zypper install libvirtopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · libvirt · Source: download.opensuse.org
Debian aptvérifié · 92%
sudo apt install libnss-libvirtDebian stable package indexes · libnss-libvirt · Source: deb.debian.org
aperçu
Résumé du paquet
C virtualization API
Liens du projet
Commandes et alias
- libvirtd
- virsh
- virt-admin
- virt-host-validate
- virt-login-shell
- virt-pki-query-dn
- virt-pki-validate
- virt-qemu-qmp-proxy
- virt-qemu-run
- virt-qemu-sev-validate
- virt-ssh-helper
- virt-xml-validate
- virtchd
- virtlockd
- virtlogd
- virtlxcd
- virtnetworkd
- virtnwfilterd
- virtproxyd
- virtqemud
- virtsecretd
- virtstoraged
- virtvboxd
historique
Historique du projet et usages
libvirt is the long-lived virtualization management API and daemon stack that gives tools a common way to manage domains, networks, storage, and host resources across hypervisors.
Historique du projet
The project was created to provide a common and stable layer for managing virtualized domains on local or remote nodes. Its own goals page emphasizes API stability, secure remote management, resource enumeration, and the ability to insulate applications from frequent changes in lower-level virtualization frameworks.
libvirt became especially important as Linux virtualization consolidated around QEMU and KVM while still needing to interoperate with Xen, LXC, bhyve, VMware, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, and other backends. The project website describes a portable C API, stateful host daemons for some hypervisors, and language bindings layered on top of the core API.
Historique d'adoption
The adoption story is unusually broad for a system library. The official applications page lists command-line tools, desktop applications, provisioning tools, monitoring systems, web applications, configuration-management integrations, backup tools, and infrastructure-as-a-service stacks using the libvirt API.
For package managers, libvirt is not just a library dependency; it is an ecosystem root. Installing it can bring daemons such as libvirtd or modular virt* daemons, virsh, validation tools, NSS integration packages, storage and network drivers, language bindings, and downstream tools such as virt-manager, virt-install, Vagrant providers, and cloud or CI integrations.
Modes d'utilisation
Administrators commonly use virsh and libvirt daemons to define, start, stop, migrate, inspect, and automate virtual machines and container-like domains. Application developers use the API and bindings to build higher-level management tools while avoiding direct hypervisor-specific control protocols.
On developer workstations it is often the package behind local KVM/QEMU workflows; on servers it is the control plane layer used by provisioning, monitoring, and orchestration software that needs stable VM lifecycle operations.
Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent
libvirt is package-nerd famous because it sits at the junction of init systems, daemon socket activation, TLS and PKI material, kernel capabilities, QEMU/KVM feature flags, storage pools, virtual networking, and language bindings. It is the sort of dependency whose packaging details define whether virtualization feels boring or impossible.
It also illustrates why stable C APIs matter in infrastructure: a large ecosystem of frontends can keep working while hypervisors, host operating systems, and security models change underneath.
Chronologie
- 2005: Early libvirt releases began the public release history recorded by the project news archive.
- 2012: The 1.0 series marked libvirt as a mature cross-hypervisor management layer.
- 2021-01-15: libvirt 7.0.0 release notes recorded a formal handover of release tarball signing.
- 2026-07-01: The project website listed support for QEMU/KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, macOS Hypervisor.framework, and other drivers.
Related projects
- QEMU and KVM are among the most common backends managed through libvirt.
- Xen, LXC, bhyve, VMware ESX/vCenter, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, Virtuozzo, and POWER Hypervisor are supported or related virtualization targets.
- virt-manager, virt-install, guestfish, vagrant-libvirt, and many monitoring and provisioning tools sit above the libvirt API.
Sources
posture de sécurité
Niveau de risque : orange
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. formula declares a Homebrew service.
Classificateur de risque
risque orange · confiance moyen · infrastructure
Pourquoi
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
- formula declares a Homebrew service
- generalized runtime or code generation signal
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal
Signaux
- metadata:service
- text:network,ssh
- text:shell
- text:virtualization
Comportement d'installation
- Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
- Les métadonnées de formule déclarent un service ou daemon.
- Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 6 plateformes.
- S’installe avec 8 dépendances d’exécution.
- Les métadonnées de compilation listent 5 dépendances de compilation.
Revue recommandée
Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf/etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/libvirt/libvirt.conf
Credential files
Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.
- Unix
/etc/pki/CA/cacert.pem/etc/pki/libvirt/servercert.pem/etc/pki/libvirt/private/serverkey.pem
exécutables
Exécutables installés
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
libvirtd | cli | exécutable global | |
virsh | cli | exécutable global | |
virt-admin | cli | exécutable global | |
virt-host-validate | cli | exécutable global | |
virt-login-shell | cli | exécutable global | |
virt-pki-query-dn | cli | exécutable global | |
virt-pki-validate | cli | exécutable global | |
virt-qemu-qmp-proxy | cli | exécutable global | |
virt-qemu-run | cli | exécutable global | |
virt-qemu-sev-validate | cli | exécutable global | |
virt-ssh-helper | cli | exécutable global | |
virt-xml-validate | cli | exécutable global | |
virtchd | cli | exécutable global | |
virtlockd | cli | exécutable global | |
virtlogd | cli | exécutable global | |
virtlxcd | cli | exécutable global | |
virtnetworkd | cli | exécutable global | |
virtnwfilterd | cli | exécutable global | |
virtproxyd | cli | exécutable global | |
virtqemud | cli | exécutable global | |
virtsecretd | cli | exécutable global | |
virtstoraged | cli | exécutable global | |
virtvboxd | cli | exécutable global |
fraîcheur
Version et fraîcheur
Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.
page générée2026-07-10
version du gestionnaire12.5.0
gestionnaire mis à jour2026-07-09
données localesOK
amontnot checked
dernière version détectéenon détecté
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://libvirt.org/confiance none
métadonnées d'installation
Métadonnées du paquet
| Clé du paquet | brew:libvirt |
|---|---|
| Version | 12.5.0 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page du gestionnaire de paquets | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/libvirt |
| Page d'accueil | https://libvirt.org/ |
| Dépôt | https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt |
| Docs amont | https://libvirt.org/docs |
| Licence | LGPL-2.1-or-later AND GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Archive source | https://download.libvirt.org/libvirt-12.5.0.tar.xz |
| Dernière mise à jour | 2026-07-09T23:27:37Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dépendances | cyrus-sasl, gettext, glib, gnutls, json-c, libiscsi, libssh2, readline |
| Dépendances de compilation | docutils, gettext, meson, ninja, pkgconf |
| Bibliothèques fournies par macOS | curl, libxml2 |
| Bouteille | disponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| post-install Homebrew | non défini |
| Service | declared |
faits du registre
Détails de la base source
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | libvirt |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
|
correspondances dans les bases sources
Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets
Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.
Debian apt95%
libnss-libvirt 11.3.0-3+deb13u2
virtualization library - NSS plugins
sudo apt install libnss-libvirt- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: libvirt
- 4 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Libvirt
Debian apt95%
libvirt-clients 11.3.0-3+deb13u2
virtualization library - clients
sudo apt install libvirt-clients- Section: admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: libvirt
- 10 Dépendances
- 3 dépendances optionnelles
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Libvirt
Debian apt95%
libvirt-clients-qemu 11.3.0-3+deb13u2
virtualization library - clients (QEMU specific)
sudo apt install libvirt-clients-qemu- Section: admin
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: libvirt
- 6 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Libvirt
Debian apt95%
libvirt-common 11.3.0-3+deb13u2
virtualization library - common files
sudo apt install libvirt-common- Section: libs
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: libvirt
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Libvirt
Debian apt95%
libvirt-daemon 11.3.0-3+deb13u2
virtualization daemon
https://libvirt.org/daemons.html#monolithic-driver-daemon
sudo apt install libvirt-daemon- Section: admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: libvirt
- 10 Dépendances
- 22 dépendances optionnelles
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Libvirt
Debian apt95%
libvirt-daemon-common 11.3.0-3+deb13u2
virtualization daemon - common files
sudo apt install libvirt-daemon-common- Section: admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: libvirt
- 13 Dépendances
- 4 dépendances optionnelles
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Libvirt
Debian apt95%
libvirt-daemon-config-network 11.3.0-3+deb13u2
virtualization daemon - configuration files (default network)
sudo apt install libvirt-daemon-config-network- Section: admin
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: libvirt
- 3 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Libvirt
Debian apt95%
libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter 11.3.0-3+deb13u2
virtualization daemon - configuration files (default network filters)
sudo apt install libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter- Section: admin
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: libvirt
- 3 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Libvirt
Debian apt95%
libvirt-daemon-driver-interface 11.3.0-3+deb13u2
virtualization daemon - interface driver
sudo apt install libvirt-daemon-driver-interface- Section: admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: libvirt
- 7 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Libvirt
Debian apt95%
libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc 11.3.0-3+deb13u2
virtualization daemon - LXC connection driver
https://libvirt.org/drvlxc.html
sudo apt install libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc- Section: admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: libvirt
- 14 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Libvirt
Debian apt95%
libvirt-daemon-driver-network 11.3.0-3+deb13u2
virtualization daemon - network driver
https://libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html
sudo apt install libvirt-daemon-driver-network- Section: admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: libvirt
- 9 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Libvirt
Debian apt95%
libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev 11.3.0-3+deb13u2
virtualization daemon - node device (nodedev) driver
https://libvirt.org/drvnodedev.html
sudo apt install libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev- Section: admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: libvirt
- 9 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Libvirt
Debian apt95%
libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter 11.3.0-3+deb13u2
virtualization daemon - network filter (nwfilter) driver
https://libvirt.org/formatnwfilter.html
sudo apt install libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter- Section: admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: libvirt
- 8 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Libvirt
Debian apt95%
libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu 11.3.0-3+deb13u2
virtualization daemon - QEMU connection driver
https://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html
sudo apt install libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu- Section: admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: libvirt
- 17 Dépendances
- 4 dépendances optionnelles
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Libvirt
Debian apt95%
libvirt-daemon-driver-secret 11.3.0-3+deb13u2
virtualization daemon - secret driver
https://libvirt.org/drvsecret.html
sudo apt install libvirt-daemon-driver-secret- Section: admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: libvirt
- 6 Dépendances
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Libvirt
Debian apt95%
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage 11.3.0-3+deb13u2
virtualization daemon - storage driver
https://libvirt.org/storage.html
sudo apt install libvirt-daemon-driver-storage- Section: admin
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: libvirt
- 11 Dépendances
- 1 dépendances optionnelles
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Libvirt
piste source
Généré depuis les données du dépôt
Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Sources utilisées
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment