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Virtual Machine Manager

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Virtual Machine Manager
Virtual Machine Manager logo.png
Virt-manager 3.2.0 QEMU KVM screenshot.png
Virtual Machine Manager running Haiku (installation phase)
Developer(s)Red Hat
Stable release
4.1.0 / August 4, 2022; 23 months ago (2022-08-04)[1]
Written inPython[2]
Operating systemLinux
TypeVirtual machine
LicenseGPL v2+
Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) is based on libvirt and supports several Hypervisors

In computing, the Red Hat Virtual Machine Manager, also known as virt-manager, is a desktop virtual machine monitor.[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:

See also

  • libvirt, the API used by Virtual Machine Manager to create and manage virtual machines

References

  1. ↑ "Virtual Machine Manager Releases Page". https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/releases. 
  2. ↑ "virt-manager/virt-manager". https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager. 
  3. ↑ 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." 
  4. ↑ "Add bhyve support". 11 April 2014. http://anzwix.com/a/virt-manager/AddBhyveSupport. 
  5. ↑ "virt-manager 1.0.1-1 (any)". 25 March 2014. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/virt-manager/. 
  6. ↑ "deskutils/virt-manager". Jan 2018. https://www.freshports.org/deskutils/virt-manager/. 
  7. ↑ "sysutils/virt-manager". May 2014. http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/sysutils/virt-manager/README.html. 
  8. ↑ "sysutils/virt-manager". Nov 2015. http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/virt-manager/. 

External links

Documentation

While the Virtual Machine Manager project itself lacks documentation, there are third parties providing relevant information, e.g.:




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