Cockpit Machines is a Cockpit application that provides a web interface for creating and managing virtual machines on a Linux host.
It uses libvirt-dbus to monitor and control guests, with virt-install and virt-xml handling the creation and modification of virtual machine definitions.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Creates virtual machines from downloaded operating systems, cloud images, local installation media, URLs, existing disk images or PXE.
- Configures memory, virtual CPUs, storage and networking.
- Starts, pauses, reboots, shuts down and deletes virtual machines.
- Provides graphical VNC and SPICE consoles together with serial consoles.
- Adds and manages disks, network interfaces, shared filesystems and host devices.
- Creates, reverts and deletes virtual machine snapshots.
- Clones virtual machines.
- Migrates guests to other hosts using shared or copied storage.
- Creates and administers virtual networks.
- Manages storage pools and storage volumes.
- Displays guest status and resource usage.
Website: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-machines
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Developer: Cockpit Project
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
Cockpit Machines is written in TypeScript and Python. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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