Virt-manager

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

"Virtual Machine Manager" redirects here. For the Microsoft software, see System Center Virtual Machine Manager. For a class of products that manage and host virtual machines, see Hypervisor.

Virtual Machine Manager

Virtual Machine Manager running Haiku (installation phase)
Developer(s)	Red Hat
Stable release	5.0.0 / November 26, 2024; 5 months ago (2024-11-26)[1]
Repository	github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager
Written in	Python[2]
Operating system	Linux
Type	Virtual machine
License	GPL v2+
Website	virt-manager.org

Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) is based on libvirt and supports several Hypervisors

Features

Virt-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 virt-manager 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