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Project Summary

Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The library aims at providing a long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but since ported to other virtualization technologies, QEmu and KVM.

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kvm library qemu virtualization xen

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C
64%
XML
28%
C++
5%
11 Other
3%

30 Day Summary

Jan 2 2025 — Feb 1 2025

12 Month Summary

Feb 1 2024 — Feb 1 2025
  • 1669 Commits
    Down -498 (22%) from previous 12 months
  • 93 Contributors
    Up + 11 (13%) from previous 12 months

Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for libvirt )

Repository URL: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt.git

Version: v6.1.0-71-g9fe6c1dc7f

2020-03-11
Last Analyzed
733,249
Lines of Code Analyze
0.12
Defect Density

Defects by status for current build

100
Total defects
86
Outstanding
0
Fixed

CWE Top 25 defects

ID CWE-Name Number of Defects
676 Use of Potentially Dangerous Function 1