Virtual Machine Manager
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This article is about a specific product. For a class of products that manage and host virtual machines, see Hypervisor.
 Virtual Machine Manager running Windows XP on an Ubuntu host |
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| Developer(s) | Red Hat |
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| Stable release | 0.9.5 / April 1, 2013 |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | Virtual machine |
| License | GPL v2+ |
| Website | virt-manager.org |
In computing, the Red Hat Virtual Machine Manager is a desktop-driven virtual-machine manager application with which users can manage virtual machines (VMs).[1]
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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 & utilization statistics for each VM
- view all running VMs and hosts and their live performance & resource utilization statistics.
- use KVM, Xen or QEMU virtual machines, running either locally or remotely.
Distributions including Virtual Machine Manager [edit]
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)
- Opensuse (since release 10.3)
- PC-BSD
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (since version 5)
- Ubuntu (version 8.04 and above)
- Oracle Linux
- Scientific Linux
Documentation [edit]
Documentation exists both inside Virtual Machine Manager and at its website.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualization documentation comes as three guides Administration, Getting Started and Host Configuration and Guest Installation.
Ubuntu 8.04 virtualization documentation comes with the Ubuntu Server Guide.
See also [edit]
- libvirt, the API used by Virtual Machine Manager to create and manage virtual machines
References [edit]
- ^ 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."
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