node-libvirt - The virtualization API bindings for NodeJS
Libvirt is a toolkit to interact with virtualization capabilities of recent versions of GNU/Linux (and other OSes). (reference: Libvirt)
Node-Libvirt is a set of bindings to Libvirt API, which allows to use it from Javascript.
- The Xen hypervisor on Linux and Solaris hosts.
- QEMU emulator
- KVM Linux hypervisor
- LXC Linux container system
- OpenVZ Linux container system
- User Mode Linux paravirtualized kernel
- VirtualBox hypervisor
- VMware ESX and GSX hypervisors
- IBM Power Hypervisor
- 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
You must have NodeJS and Libvirt already installed to be able to build node-libvirt.
$ 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 )
For now please take a look at the tests.
Work in progress at docs page
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