Virtual Machine Manager

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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).

Video Virtual Machine Manager

Features

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.

Maps Virtual Machine Manager

Distributions including Virtual Machine Manager

Virtual Machine Manager comes as the virt-manager package in:

• Arch Linux
• Debian (since lenny)
• Fedora (since version 6)
• Frugalware
• Gentoo
• Mandriva Linux (since release 2007.1)
• NetBSD (via pkgsrc)
• OpenBSD (via Ports collection)
• openSUSE (since release 10.3)
• Trisquel
• TrueOS
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (since version 5)
• Ubuntu (version 8.04 and above)
• Oracle Linux
• Scientific Linux

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Documentation

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:
  • Virtualization Getting Started Guide
  • Virtualization Host Configuration and Guest Installation Guide
  • Virtualization Administration Guide
• Fedora 18 documentation:
  • Virtualization Getting Started Guide
  • Virtualization Administration Guide
  • Virtualization Security Guide
• Ubuntu official documentation:
  • KVM/VirtManager
• Libvirt documentation:
  • Documentation: index
  • Documentation: Storage pools
  • Documentation: Network management architecture
  • Wiki: Virtual networking

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See also

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

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References

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External links

• Official website

Source of article : Wikipedia