libvirt - The virtualization API libvirt is a toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). Most dependencies are autodetected and having the required libs in place will build the respective features automatically. The group can be specified at build time like this: VIRTGROUP=somegroup ./libvirt.SlackBuild (default: users) If you want to start the libvirt daemon at boot, add this to /etc/rc.d/rc.local # Start libvirt: if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.libvirt ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.libvirt start fi Have a look at the commented part of rc.libvirt for some gotchas.