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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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Project Security

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C
64%
XML
29%
C++
5%
11 Other
2%

30 Day Summary

Jun 26 2025 — Jul 26 2025

12 Month Summary

Jul 26 2024 — Jul 26 2025
  • 1903 Commits
    Up + 66 (3%) from previous 12 months
  • 106 Contributors
    Up + 24 (29%) from previous 12 months

Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for libvirt )

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

Version:

2025-07-25
Last Analyzed
737,151
Lines of Code Analyze
0.71
Defect Density

Defects by status for current build

860
Total defects
523
Outstanding
320
Fixed

CWE Top 25 defects

ID CWE-Name Number of Defects
190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound 58