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

30 Day Summary

Feb 3 2026 — Mar 5 2026

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
 

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