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New to litevirt? Start with Get started, then come back here.

Set up

• Installation — build, bootstrap a cluster, add hosts
• Migrating from Proxmox — bring existing VMs across
• Configuration — every daemon setting
• CLI reference — all lv commands and flags

Run workloads

• Compose stacks — multi-VM YAML, restart policy, update strategy
• Containers — LXC and OCI workloads alongside VMs
• Placement and rebalancing — policy axes, named modes, anti-affinity
• GitOps — reconcile stacks from a repository
• GPU and PCI passthrough — device assignment, SR-IOV, hot-plug

Networking and storage

• Networking — bridges, VXLAN, SR-IOV, IPv6
• Firewall — per-VM and host rules
• Storage — local, NFS, iSCSI, Ceph, ZFS, btrfs, LVM-thin
• Ceph — deploying and attaching Ceph pools
• Backups — deduplicated backups and restore

Keep it running

• Migration and failover — live migration, health checks, fencing, witness hosts
• Operating model — cluster guarantees and the recovery playbook
• Upgrades — pre-flight gates and automatic rollback
• Diagnostics — finding out what a cluster is doing
• Notifications and telemetry

Access and security

• Authentication — local, OIDC, and LDAP realms, TOTP and WebAuthn
• Tenancy — quotas and isolation between teams
• Audit log — the tamper-evident hash chain
• Federation — working across clusters

Interfaces

• Web UI — every page and what it controls
• REST API — endpoints and tokens
• MCP server — let an AI agent operate the cluster

Browse everything: the docs folder .