Libvirt is fast becoming the standard tool for managing virtual machines on Linux and Qpid is the Apache Foundation’s new implementation of AMQP which is the first open standard for Enterprise Messaging. These two technologies have the potential to work well together for large virtualization installations and luckily for us the good guys in the libvirt team have done just that http://libvirt.org/qpid/ but there are currently very few examples on how to use it. I am putting this brief tutorial in their wiki as a starting point for others but will continue to publish my experiences here.