Virt-manager
{{Short description|Virtualisation software}}
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{{Redirect|Virtual Machine Manager|the Microsoft software|System Center Virtual Machine Manager|a class of products that manage and host virtual machines|Hypervisor}}
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{{Infobox Software
| logo = Virtual Machine Manager logo.png
| logo_size = 128px
| name = Virtual Machine Manager
| screenshot = Virt-manager 3.2.0 QEMU KVM screenshot.png
| caption = Virtual Machine Manager running Haiku (installation phase)
| developer = Red Hat
| latest_release_version = 5.0.0
| latest_release_date = {{release date and age|2024|11|26}}{{cite web|url=https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/releases|title=Virtual Machine Manager Releases Page|website=GitHub }}
| programming language = Python{{cite web|url=https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager|access-date=23 June 2018|via=GitHub|title=virt-manager/virt-manager}}
| operating_system = Linux
| genre = Virtual machine
| license = GPL v2+
}}
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virt-manager is a desktop virtual machine monitor primarily developed by Red Hat.
{{cite book
|first1= Ellen |last1= Siever
|first2= Stephen |last2= Figgins
|first3= Robert |last3= Love
|first4= Arnold |last4= Robbins
|author3-link= Robert Love
|title=Linux in a Nutshell
|edition= 6
|date= 2009-09-22
|publisher= O'Reilly
|isbn= 978-0-596-15448-6
|page= 850
|quote= [...] 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.
}}
Features
Virt-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.{{cite web
|url =http://anzwix.com/a/virt-manager/AddBhyveSupport
|title = Add bhyve support
|date = 11 April 2014
|access-date = 1 July 2014
|website = Anzwix}}
Distributions including Virtual Machine Manager
Virtual Machine Manager comes as the {{mono|virt-manager}} package in:
- Arch Linux{{cite web |date=19 May 2023 |title=virt-manager 4.1.0-2 (any) |url=https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/virt-manager/ |access-date=13 November 2023 |website=Arch Linux}}
- CentOS
- Debian (since lenny)
- Fedora (since version 6)
- FreeBSD (via Ports collection){{cite web
|url = https://www.freshports.org/deskutils/virt-manager/
|title = deskutils/virt-manager
|date = Jan 2018
|access-date = 31 January 2018
|website = FreshPorts}}
- Frugalware
- Gentoo
- Mandriva Linux (since release 2007.1)
- MXLinux
- NetBSD (via pkgsrc){{cite web
|url = http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/sysutils/virt-manager/README.html
|title = sysutils/virt-manager
|date = May 2014
|access-date = 1 July 2014
|website = The NetBSD Packages Collection}}
|url = http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/virt-manager/
|title = sysutils/virt-manager
|date = Nov 2015
|access-date = 9 November 2015
|website = OpenBSD CVSweb}}
- 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
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External links
{{commons category|Virtual Machine Manager}}
- {{Official website}}
= 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):
- [https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/virtualization_getting_started_guide/chap-virtualization_manager-introduction Getting Started with Virtual Machine Manager]
- Fedora documentation:
- [https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/getting-started-with-virtualization/ Getting started with virtualization]
- Ubuntu official documentation:
- [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/VirtManager KVM/VirtManager]
- Libvirt documentation:
- [https://libvirt.org/docs.html Documentation: index]
- [https://libvirt.org/storage.html Documentation: Storage pools]
- [https://libvirt.org/archnetwork.html Documentation: Network management architecture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913215004/http://libvirt.org/archnetwork.html |date=2017-09-13 }}
- [http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/VirtualNetworking Wiki: Virtual networking]
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Category:Free virtualization software
Category:Remote administration software
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