virt-manager – desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt

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.

Features include:

• 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.

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