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libvirt vs KubeVirt: What are the differences?

What is libvirt? An open-source virtualization API. It is an open-source API, daemon and management tool for managing platform virtualization. It can be used to manage KVM, Xen, VMware ESXi, QEMU and other virtualization technologies.

What is KubeVirt? Virtual Machine Management on Kubernetes. It addresses the needs of development teams that have adopted or want to adopt Kubernetes but possess existing Virtual Machine-based workloads that cannot be easily containerized. More specifically, the technology provides a unified development platform where developers can build, modify, and deploy applications residing in both Application Containers as well as Virtual Machines in a common, shared environment.

libvirt and KubeVirt can be categorized as "Virtual Machine Management" tools.

Some of the features offered by libvirt are:

Manage virtualization platforms
Accessible from C, Python, Perl, Java and more
Supports KVM, QEMU, Xen, Virtuozzo, VMWare ESX, LXC, BHyve and more

On the other hand, KubeVirt provides the following key features:

Open Source
Kubernetes Compatible
Windows and Linux VMs

KubeVirt is an open source tool with 1.86K GitHub stars and 422 GitHub forks. Here's a link to KubeVirt's open source repository on GitHub.

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Low overhead
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Built into most Linux distros
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Native KVM and QEMU
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Native hypervisor
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VirtIO direct hardware access
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What is KubeVirt?

It addresses the needs of development teams that have adopted or want to adopt Kubernetes but possess existing Virtual Machine-based workloads that cannot be easily containerized. More specifically, the technology provides a unified development platform where developers can build, modify, and deploy applications residing in both Application Containers as well as Virtual Machines in a common, shared environment.

What is libvirt?

It is an open-source API, daemon and management tool for managing platform virtualization. It can be used to manage KVM, Xen, VMware ESXi, QEMU and other virtualization technologies.

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What tools integrate with KubeVirt?

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Kubernetes

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What are some alternatives to KubeVirt and libvirt?

OpenStack

OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.

Vagrant

Vagrant provides the framework and configuration format to create and manage complete portable development environments. These development environments can live on your computer or in the cloud, and are portable between Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

boot2docker

boot2docker is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Tiny Core Linux made specifically to run Docker containers. It runs completely from RAM, weighs ~27MB and boots in ~5s (YMMV).

XenServer

It is a leading virtualization management platform optimized for application, desktop and server virtualization infrastructures. It is used in the world's largest clouds and enterprises.

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