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LIBVIRT-OVERVIEW(7)01 entries

Overview

High-level orientation, daemon history, and where libvirt fits in the stack.

  1. 01
    libvirtd overview and the compatibility daemon

    libvirtd is the historical management daemon for libvirt. On many modern hosts it still exists, but often as a compatibility layer in front of modular daemons such as virtqemud, virtnetworkd, and virtstoraged. What libvi

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