virt-manager
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Developer(s) | Red Hat |
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Stable release | 4.1.0
/ August 4, 2022 |
Repository | |
Written in | Python |
Operating system | Linux |
Type | Virtual machine |
License | GPL v2+ |
Website | virt-manager |
virt-manager is a desktop virtual machine monitor primarily developed by Red Hat.
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.
Distributions including Virtual Machine Manager
Virtual Machine Manager comes as the virt-manager package in:
- Arch Linux
- CentOS
- Debian (since lenny)
- Fedora (since version 6)
- FreeBSD (via Ports collection)
- Frugalware
- Gentoo
- Mandriva Linux (since release 2007.1)
- MXLinux
- NetBSD (via pkgsrc)
- NixOS
- OpenBSD (via Ports collection)
- 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