computing Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and development of both hardware and software. Computing has scientific, ...

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

virtual machine monitor A hypervisor (also known as a virtual machine monitor, VMM, or virtualizer) is a type of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines. A computer on which a hypervisor runs one or more virtual machines is called ...

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 QEMU is a free and open-source emulator (Quick EMUlator). It emulates the machine's central processing unit, processor through dynamic binary translation and provides a set of different hardware and device models for the machine, enabling it t ...

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

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Support for FreeBSD's

bhyve bhyve (pronounced "bee hive", formerly written as BHyVe for "BSD hypervisor") is a type-2 hypervisor initially written for FreeBSD. It can also be used on a number of illumos based distributions including SmartOS, OpenIndiana, and OmniOS. A por ...

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 Arch Linux () is an independently developed, x86-64 general-purpose Linux distribution that strives to provide the latest stable versions of most software by following a rolling-release model. The default installation is a minimal base system, ...

* CentOS * Debian (since lenny) * Fedora (since version 6) * FreeBSD (via

Ports collection Ports collections (or ''ports trees'', or just ''ports'') are the sets of makefiles and patches provided by the BSD-based operating systems, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, as a simple method of installing software or creating binary packages. T ...

) *

Frugalware Frugalware Linux has been a general-purpose Linux distribution designed for intermediate users who are familiar with command-line operations. Early versions were based on Slackware, but it later became an independently developed distribution. Frug ...

* Gentoo *

Mandriva Linux Mandriva Linux (a fusion of the French distribution Mandrake Linux and the Brazilian distribution Conectiva Linux) is a discontinued Linux distribution developed by Mandriva S.A. Each release lifetime was 18 months for base updates (Linux, system ...

(since release 2007.1) * MXLinux * NetBSD (via

pkgsrc pkgsrc (''package source'') is a package management system for Unix-like operating systems. It was forked from the FreeBSD ports collection in 1997 as the primary package management system for NetBSD. Since then it has evolved independently; in 19 ...

) * OpenBSD (via

) *

openSUSE openSUSE () is a free and open source RPM-based Linux distribution developed by the openSUSE project. The initial release of the community project was a beta version of SUSE Linux 10.0. Additionally the project creates a variety of tools, s ...

(since release 10.3) *

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a commercial open-source Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86-64, Power ISA, ARM64, and IBM Z and a desktop ...

(versions 5 through 7 only) *

Scientific Linux Scientific Linux (SL) was a Linux distribution produced by Fermilab, CERN, DESY and by ETH Zurich. It is a free and open-source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This product is derived from the free and open-source software ma ...

Trisquel Trisquel (full name Trisquel GNU/Linux) is a computer operating system, a Linux distribution, derived from another distribution, Ubuntu. The project aims for a fully free software system without proprietary software or firmware and uses a version ...

TrueOS TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD or PCBSD) is a discontinued Unix-like, server-oriented operating system built upon the most recent releases of FreeBSD-CURRENT. Up to 2018 it aimed to be easy to install by using a graphical installation program, and ea ...

Ubuntu Ubuntu ( ) is a Linux distribution based on Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software. Ubuntu is officially released in three editions: '' Desktop'', ''Server'', and ''Core'' for Internet of things devices and robots. All ...

(version 8.04 and above) *

Void Linux Void Linux is an independent Linux distribution that uses the X Binary Package System (XBPS) package manager, which was designed and implemented from scratch, and the runit init system. Excluding binary kernel blobs, a base install is composed ...

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