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, the Red Hat Virtual Machine Manager, also known as virt-manager, is a desktop virtual machine monitor.

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,

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or QEMU virtual machines, running either locally or remotely. * use

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Support for FreeBSD's bhyve hypervisor has been included since 2014, though it remains disabled by default.

Distributions including Virtual Machine Manager

Virtual Machine Manager comes as the package in: * Arch Linux *

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(since lenny) *

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(since version 6) *

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(via

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) * Frugalware * Gentoo *

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(since release 2007.1) *

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(via pkgsrc) *

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(via

) * openSUSE (since release 10.3) *

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(versions 5 through 7 only) * Scientific Linux * Trisquel *

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(version 8.04 and above) *

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References

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:

Wiki: Virtual networking
{{Virtualization products Free virtualization software Red Hat software Remote administration software Software that uses PyGObject Virtualization Virtualization software for Linux Virtualization software that uses GTK

Features

Distributions including Virtual Machine Manager

See also

References

External links

Documentation