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 # libhvee
-Special purposed library for Windows HyperV control
+
+Libhvee is a special purposed library for interacting with Microsoft's HyperV hypervisor.  It was designed with the 
+[Ignition](https://coreos.github.io/ignition/) and [Podman](https://github.com/containers/podman) projects in mind
+largely because Podman Machine would like to support HyperV in addition to WSL2.
+
+The libhvee library can do the following with HyperV virtual machines:
+
+* Create
+* Start
+* Stop
+* Remove
+* Obtain various statuses
+* Add and read key-value pairs used for passing information from the host to guest virtual machines.
+
+For an example on how to use this library, consider consulting the examples
+in the [cmd dir](https://github.com/containers/libhvee/tree/main/cmd).
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+# Release Notes
+
+## v0.0.1
+* Development release
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