libvirt

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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.

In a Nutshell, libvirt...

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has had 53,502 commits made by 992 contributors
representing 979,591 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 268 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2005
ending with its most recent commit 11 days ago

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Daniel Veillard

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