Installation

This section details how to install the officially distributed version of libmicrovmi.

libmicrovmi is accessible through the following languages

• Rust
• C
• Python

Rust - Crates.io

The crate is available on crates.io:

Bundled drivers:

• Xen

C - Debian package

A Debian package microvmi_x.x.x_amd64.deb is available on Github releases:

It contains both the library and the headers to get started with C development

• /usr/lib/libmicrovmi.so
• /usr/include/libmicrovmi.h

Bundled drivers:

• Xen
• KVM
• VirtualBox
• memflow

C - Windows zip archive

A zip archive microvmi_win32.zip containing a Windows release of libmicrovmi is available on Github releases:

It contains both the library and the headers to get started with C development

• microvmi.dll
• libmicrovmi.h

Bundled drivers:

• Virtualbox
• memflow

Python - PyPI

libmicrovmi is exposing a Python interface through a native extension.

The package microvmi is available on PyPI:

create a virtualenv and install the microvmi package

$ virtualenv -p python3 venv
(venv) $ pip install microvmi

Note: this extension is completely independant from any existing libmicrovmi.so installation on you system.

Note2: the native extension has been compiled for Linux only.

Bundled drivers:

• Xen
• KVM
• VirtualBox
• memflow