virt-manager is a desktop virtual machine monitor primarily developed by

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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 The Quick Emulator (QEMU) is a free and open-source emulator that uses dynamic binary translation to emulate a computer's processor; that is, it translates the emulated binary codes to an equivalent binary format which is executed by the mach ...

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

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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 * CentOS *

Debian Debian () is a free and open-source software, free and open source Linux distribution, developed by the Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock in August 1993. Debian is one of the oldest operating systems based on the Linux kerne ...

(since lenny) * Fedora (since version 6) *

FreeBSD FreeBSD is a free-software Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The first version was released in 1993 developed from 386BSD, one of the first fully functional and free Unix clones on affordable ...

(via Ports collection) * Frugalware * Gentoo *

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(since release 2007.1) * MXLinux *

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(via

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) * NixOS *

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(via Ports collection) * openSUSE (since release 10.3) *

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

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(version 8.04 and above) * Void Linux

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* {{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

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