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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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Languages

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

30 Day Summary

Apr 13 2026 — May 13 2026

12 Month Summary

May 13 2025 — May 13 2026
  • 1652 Commits
    Down -164 (9%) from previous 12 months
  • 112 Contributors
    Up + 12 (12%) from previous 12 months

Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for libvirt )

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

Version: v12.3.0-41-g1b32fbdf

2026-05-14
Last Analyzed
746,436
Lines of Code Analyze
0.69
Defect Density

Defects by status for current build

881
Total defects
518
Outstanding
345
Fixed

CWE Top 25 defects

ID CWE-Name Number of Defects
190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound 52