According to the Huawei HCIA-Cloud Computing curriculum regarding Open Source Virtualization, statement D is FALSE. Libvirt is famously an open-source toolkit and API, licensed under the LGPL. It was specifically designed to provide a stable, long-term abstraction layer for managing different virtualization technologies. It is not a proprietary or "closed-source" product. In fact, its open nature is what allowed it to become the industry standard for managing Linux-based hypervisors.
The other statements accurately describe Libvirt's role in a cloud environment. As noted in statement A, Libvirt is "hypervisor-agnostic," meaning it can manage multiple types of virtualization, including KVM, Xen, QEMU, and even LXC containers. This allows management tools to use a single set of commands regardless of the underlying technology. Statement B is correct because Libvirt provides bindings for numerous programming languages, such as Python, C, and Java, enabling developers to automate VM lifecycle management (start, stop, migrate, snapshot) directly through code. Statement C is also true; Libvirt is essentially a collection of library functions and a daemon (libvirtd) that higher-level management platforms, such as Huawei'sFusionComputeor the open-sourceOpenStack, invoke to communicate with the hardware.
In Huawei's virtualization architecture, Libvirt acts as a crucial middle layer. By using the virsh command-line tool (which is part of the Libvirt package), administrators can perform complex VM operations without needing to understand the specific, low-level command syntax of each different hypervisor. Understanding that Libvirt is open-source and provides this universal management interface is a key learning point for the HCIA exam.
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