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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

In a Nutshell, libvirt...

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has had 53,741 commits made by 998 contributors
representing 984,184 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 269 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2005
ending with its most recent commit 3 days ago

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Languages

C	62%
XML	31%
C++	5%
11 Other	2%

30 Day Summary

Feb 3 2026 — Mar 5 2026

138 Commits
28 Contributors
including 5 new contributors

12 Month Summary

Mar 5 2025 — Mar 5 2026

1769 Commits
Down -43 (2%) from previous 12 months
113 Contributors
Up + 15 (15%) from previous 12 months

Most Recent Contributors

	Roman Bogorodskiy		Michal Prívozník
	Jiri Denemark		Peter Krempa
	Pavel Hrdina		andibing

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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for libvirt )

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

Version: v12.1.0-5-gd7b3be8c

2026-03-04
Last Analyzed

743,885
Lines of Code Analyze

0.69
Defect Density

Defects by status for current build

870
Total defects

515
Outstanding

338
Fixed

CWE Top 25 defects

ID	CWE-Name	Number of Defects
190	Integer Overflow or Wraparound	51