digitalocean/go-libvirt

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1099 stars · 143 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A pure Go client library for interacting with libvirt via its RPC interface, without relying on C bindings. It uses code generators to produce bindings for specific libvirt versions and encodes RPC packets using the XDR standard.

Use cases

• manage virtual machines from a Go application
• connect to a remote libvirt daemon over RPC
• automate VM lifecycle operations like start, stop, and snapshot
• build a Go-based cloud or VM provisioning tool
• interact with KVM/QEMU hypervisors programmatically
• replace cgo-based libvirt bindings with a pure Go client

When to choose

• you are writing Go software that manages libvirt-managed virtual machines
• you want to avoid cgo and C library dependencies
• you need remote access to a libvirt daemon over its RPC protocol
• you can pin or regenerate bindings for a specific libvirt version

When to avoid

• you need bindings for a libvirt version newer than the generated code and cannot run the code generators
• your project is not in Go
• you need higher-level cloud orchestration rather than direct libvirt RPC access

Facets

library · maturity active

rpc sdk serialization infrastructure-as-code developer-tools cloud-computing go cross-platform libvirt virtualization xdr code-generation hypervisor pure-go linux

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