Virtual Machine Manager
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This article is about a Linux program. For Microsoft software, see System Center Virtual Machine Manager. For a class of products that manage and host virtual machines, see Hypervisor.
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Virtual Machine Manager running FreeDOS (post-installation phase)
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| Developer(s) | Red Hat |
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| Stable release |
1.4.0 / June 18, 2016
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| Repository | github |
| Written in | Python[1] |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | Virtual machine |
| License | GPL v2+ |
| Website | virt-manager |
In computing, the Red Hat Virtual Machine Manager, also known as virt-manager, is a desktop-driven virtual machine manager with which users can manage virtual machines (VMs).[2]
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Features[edit]
Virtual Machine Manager allows users to:
- create, edit, start and stop VMs
- view and control of 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.[3]
Distributions including Virtual Machine Manager[edit]
Virtual Machine Manager comes as the virt-manager package in:
- Arch Linux[4]
- Debian (since lenny)
- Fedora (since version 6)
- Frugalware
- Gentoo
- Mandriva Linux (since release 2007.1)
- NetBSD (via pkgsrc)[5]
- OpenBSD (via Ports collection)[6]
- openSUSE (since release 10.3)
- TrueOS
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (since version 5)
- Ubuntu (version 8.04 and above)
- Oracle Linux
- Scientific Linux
Documentation[edit]
While the Virtual Machine Manager project itself lacks documentation, there are third parties providing relevant information, e.g.:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualization 6 documentation:
- Fedora 18 documentation:
- Ubuntu official documentation:
- Libvirt documentation:
See also[edit]
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- libvirt, the API used by Virtual Machine Manager to create and manage virtual machines
- Virtual machining
References[edit]
- ^ "Virtual Machine Manager - source code". virt-manager.org. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Add bhyve support". Anzwix. 11 April 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- ^ "virt-manager 1.0.1-1 (any)". Arch Linux. 25 March 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- ^ "sysutils/virt-manager". The NetBSD Packages Collection. May 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- ^ "sysutils/virt-manager". OpenBSD CVSweb. Nov 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
