The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but also manages Xen and LXC (linux containers). It presents a summary view of running domains, their live performance and resource utilization statistics.
Wizards enable the creation of new domains, and configuration & adjustment of a domain’s resource allocation & virtual hardware. An embedded VNC and SPICE client viewer presents a full graphical console to the guest domain.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Create, edit, start and stop VMs
- View and control each VM’s console
- Access 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.
- Supporting tools:
- virt-install – command line tool which provides an easy way to provision operating systems into virtual machines.
- virt-viewer – lightweight UI interface for interacting with the graphical display of virtualized guest OS. It can display VNC or SPICE, and uses libvirt to lookup the graphical connection details.
- virt-clone – command line tool for cloning existing inactive guests. It copies the disk images, and defines a config with new name, UUID and MAC address pointing to the copied disks.
- virt-xml – command line tool for easily editing libvirt domain XML using virt-install’s command line options.
- virt-bootstrap – command line tool providing an easy way to setup the root file system for libvirt-based containers.
Website: virt-manager.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Red Hat
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
virt-manager is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Virtualization Tools | |
|---|---|
| VirtualBox | Powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization software |
| Quickemu | Wrapper for QEMU that automatically “does the right thing” |
| QEMU | Machine emulator and virtualizer |
| Multipass | Lightweight virtual machine manager |
| Boxes | View, access, and manage remote and virtual systems |
| virt-manager | Desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt |
| Incus | Secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager |
| Quickgui | Gaphical user interface for the Quickemu virtual machine manager. |
| Kudu | Create and manage QEMU virtual machines from the terminal |
| Cockpit Machines | Web interface for managing virtual machines |
| Cassowary | Run Windows virtual machine on Linux |
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I thought virt-man was on the way out/no longer being developed.
There hasn’t been a release for a couple of years but it’s still getting new commits.
Hi Lars. I see, thank you.