Virtual Machine Manager

Short description: Software

Virtual Machine Manager

Virtual Machine Manager running Haiku (installation phase)

Developer(s)| Red Hat
Stable release|

4.1.0 / August 4, 2022; 3 years ago (2022-08-04)[1]

Written in| Python[2]
Operating system| Linux
Type| Virtual machine
License| GPL 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]

## Contents

* 1 Features
* 2 Distributions including Virtual Machine Manager
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links
* 5.1 Documentation

## 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

* 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.:

* 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
* Wiki: Virtual networking

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* t
* e

Red Hat

Major products|

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux
* Directory Server
* Cluster Suite
* GFS2
* WildFly (JBoss)
* Fedora
* Virtual Machine Manager
* Anaconda
* ABRT
* Ceph
* GlusterFS
* yum
* RPM
* Satellite
* CloudForms
* SPICE
* Ansible
* CentOS

Services|

* RHN
* OpenShift

Projects|

* Fedora Project
* FreeOTP
* Spacewalk

Defunct|

* Red Hat Linux
* Red Hat Database
* Fedora Legacy
* Mugshot

Important people|

* Jim Whitehurst
* Matthew Szulik
* Bob Young
* Marc Ewing
* Michael Tiemann

Mergers and acquisitions|

* Mergers and acquisitions
* C2Net
* Cygnus Solutions
* Inktank Storage
* JBoss
* MetaMatrix
* Qumranet

Related|

* Red Hat Certification Program
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives

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* e

Virtualization software

Comparison of platform virtualization software

Hardware
virtualization
(hypervisors)|

| Native|

* Adeos
* CP/CMS
* Hyper-V
* KVM
* Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
* LDoms / Oracle VM Server for SPARC
* Logical Partition (LPAR)
* LynxSecure
* PikeOS
* Proxmox VE
* SIMMON
* VMware ESXi
* VMware vSphere
* vCloud
* VMware Infrastructure
* Xen
* Oracle VM Server for x86
* XenServer
* XtratuM
* z/VM

|

Hosted|

| Specialized|

* Basilisk II
* bhyve
* Bochs
* Cooperative Linux
* DOSBox
* DOSEMU
* PCem
* PikeOS
* SheepShaver
* SIMH
* Windows on Windows
* Virtual DOS machine
* Win4Lin

|

Independent|

* Microsoft Virtual Server
* Parallels Workstation
* Parallels Desktop for Mac
* Parallels Server for Mac
* PearPC
* QEMU
* VirtualBox
* Virtual Iron
* VMware Fusion
* VMware Player
* VMware Server
* VMware Workstation
* Windows Virtual PC

Tools|

* Ganeti
* oVirt
* System Center Virtual Machine Manager
* Virtual Machine Manager

OS-level
virtualization|

| Full stack|

* Container Linux
* Docker
* iCore Virtual Accounts
* Linux-VServer
* Turbo
* Virtuozzo

|

Backends|

* chroot
* cgroups
* FreeBSD jail
* Linux namespaces
* lmctfy
* LXC
* OpenVZ
* seccomp
* vkernel
* Solaris Containers
* Workload Partitions

Orchestration|

* Amazon ECS
* Kubernetes
* OpenShift

Desktop
virtualization|

* Citrix XenApp
* Citrix XenDesktop
* Remote Desktop Services
* VMware Horizon View
* Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop

Application
virtualization|

* Ceedo
* Citrix XenApp
* Dalvik
* InstallFree
* Microsoft App-V
* Remote Desktop Services
* Symantec Workspace Virtualization
* Turbo
* VMware ThinApp
* ZeroVM

Network
virtualization|

* Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE)
* NVGRE
* Open vSwitch
* Virtual security switch
* Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)

See also: List of emulators

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