Virt-manager
Virtualisation software
virt-manager is a desktop virtual machine monitor primarily developed by Red Hat.
01Features
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.
02Distributions including Virtual Machine Manager
Virtual Machine Manager comes as the virt-manager package in:
- Arch Linux
- Alpine 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
Sources and credits
This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Virt-manager”, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.
Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Virt-manager 3.2.0 QEMU KVM screenshot.png by Software: Haiku, Inc. and Red Hat, Inc. Screenshot: VulcanSphere, GPL
- Libvirt support.svg by ScotXW, CC BY-SA 3.0
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