virt-manager
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 Virtual Machine Manager running Haiku (installation phase) | |
| Developer(s) | Red Hat |
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| Stable release | 4.1.0
/ August 4, 2022[1] |
| Repository |
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| Written in | Python[2] |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | Virtual machine |
| License | GPL v2+ |
| Website | virt-manager.org |
virt-manager is a desktop virtual machine monitor primarily developed by Red Hat.[3]
Features
Virtual Machine Manager allows users to:
- create, edit, start and stop VMs
- view and control each VM's console
- see performance and utilization statistics for each VM
- view all running VMs and hosts, and their live performance or resource utilization statistics.
- use KVM, Xen or QEMU virtual machines, running either locally or remotely.
- use LXC containers
Support for FreeBSD's bhyve hypervisor has been included since 2014, though it remains disabled by default.[4]
Distributions including Virtual Machine Manager
Virtual Machine Manager comes as the virt-manager package in:
- Arch Linux[5]
- CentOS
- Debian (since lenny)
- Fedora (since version 6)
- FreeBSD (via Ports collection)[6]
- Frugalware
- Gentoo
- Mandriva Linux (since release 2007.1)
- MXLinux
- NetBSD (via pkgsrc)[7]
- NixOS
- OpenBSD (via Ports collection)[8]
- openSUSE (since release 10.3)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (versions 5 through 7 only)
- Scientific Linux
- Trisquel
- TrueOS
- Ubuntu (version 8.04 and above)
- Void Linux
See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Virtual Machine Manager.
- libvirt, the API used by Virtual Machine Manager to create and manage virtual machines
References
- ^ "Virtual Machine Manager Releases Page". GitHub.
- ^ "virt-manager/virt-manager". Retrieved 23 June 2018 – via GitHub.
- ^
Siever, Ellen; Figgins, Stephen; Love, Robert; Robbins, Arnold (2009-09-22). Linux in a Nutshell (6 ed.). O'Reilly. p. 850. ISBN 978-0-596-15448-6.
[...] the Red Hat Virtual Machine Manager application [...] is a collection of tools built using libvirt. This includes a few command-line tools as well as the GUI virt-manager application.
- ^ "Add bhyve support". Anzwix. 11 April 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- ^ "virt-manager 4.1.0-2 (any)". Arch Linux. 19 May 2023. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- ^ "deskutils/virt-manager". FreshPorts. Jan 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
- ^ "sysutils/virt-manager". The NetBSD Packages Collection. May 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- ^ "sysutils/virt-manager". OpenBSD CVSweb. Nov 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
External links
- Official website
Documentation
While the Virtual Machine Manager project itself lacks documentation, there are third parties providing relevant information, e.g.:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualization 7 documentation (VMM is not used in RHEL 8 and later):
- Getting Started with Virtual Machine Manager
- Fedora documentation:
- Getting started with virtualization
- Ubuntu official documentation:
- KVM/VirtManager
- Libvirt documentation:
- Documentation: index
- Documentation: Storage pools
- Documentation: Network management architecture Archived 2017-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
- Wiki: Virtual networking