Virt-manager explained

Virtual Machine Manager
Developer:	Red Hat
Latest Release Version:	4.1.0
Latest Release Date:	^[1]
Programming Language:	Python^[2]
Operating System:	Linux
Genre:	Virtual machine
License:	GPL v2+

virt-manager is a desktop virtual machine monitor primarily developed by Red Hat.^[3]

Features

Virtual Machine 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.^[4]

Distributions including Virtual Machine Manager

Virtual Machine Manager comes as the package in:

• Arch Linux^[5]
• CentOS
• Debian (since lenny)
• Fedora (since version 6)
• FreeBSD (via Ports collection)^[6]
• Frugalware
• Gentoo
• Mandriva Linux (since release 2007.1)
  • MXLinux NetBSD (via pkgsrc)^[7]
• NixOS
• OpenBSD (via Ports collection)^[8]
• 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

External links

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
  • Wiki: Virtual networking

Notes and References

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