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Virtual Machine Manager

Virtual Machine Manager running Haiku (installation phase)
Developer(s)	Red Hat
Stable release	5.0.0 / November 26, 2024; 23 days ago (2024-11-26)
Repository	github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager
Written in	Python
Operating system	Linux
Type	Virtual machine
License	GPL v2+
Website	virt-manager.org

virt-manager is a desktop virtual machine monitor primarily developed by Red Hat.

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.

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

• libvirt, the API used by Virtual Machine Manager to create and manage virtual machines

References

1. "Virtual Machine Manager Releases Page". GitHub.
2. "virt-manager/virt-manager". Retrieved 23 June 2018 – via GitHub.
3. Siever, Ellen; Figgins, Stephen; Love, Robert; Robbins, Arnold (2009-09-22). Linux in a Nutshell (6 ed.). O'Reilly. p. 850. ISBN 978-0-596-15448-6. 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.
4. "Add bhyve support". Anzwix. 11 April 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
5. "virt-manager 4.1.0-2 (any)". Arch Linux. 19 May 2023. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
6. "deskutils/virt-manager". FreshPorts. Jan 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
7. "sysutils/virt-manager". The NetBSD Packages Collection. May 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
8. "sysutils/virt-manager". OpenBSD CVSweb. Nov 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2015.

External links

• 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):
  • Getting Started with Virtual Machine Manager
• Fedora documentation:
  • Getting started with virtualization
• Ubuntu official documentation:
  • KVM/VirtManager
• Libvirt documentation:
  • Documentation: index
  • Documentation: Storage pools
  • Documentation: Network management architecture Archived 2017-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
  • Wiki: Virtual networking

• Free virtualization software
• Red Hat software
• Remote administration software
• Software that uses PyGObject
• Virtualization
• Virtualization software for Linux
• Virtualization software that uses GTK