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 Virtual Machine Manager running Windows XP on an Ubuntu host |
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| Developer(s) | Red Hat |
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| Stable release | 0.9.0 / July 26, 2011 |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | Virtual machine |
| License | GPL v2+ |
| Website | http://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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[edit] Features
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.
[edit] 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)
- Opensuse (since release 10.3)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Ubuntu (version 8.04 and above)
- Oracle Linux
[edit] Documentation
Documentation exists both inside Virtual Machine Manager and at its website.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 virtualization documentation comes in the form of the RHEL Virtualization Guide.
Ubuntu 8.04 virtualization documentation comes with the Ubuntu Server Guide.
[edit] References
- ^ 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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