On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:54:05PM +0100, Ahmed Amer wrote:

Hello, I am wondering what is the difference between libvirt and qemu?and how they are related to KVM?

Libvirt is a library API providing the ability to manager a number of virtualizaton technologies, including Xen, QEMU, KVM, VMWare, etc. QEMU is a virtual machine & CPU emulator. KVM is a kernel hypervisor providing hardware acceleration for QEMU virtual machine CPUs. Virtio is an accelerated I/O layer for disk, networking & other misc devices. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|