virt-manager
virt-manager is a desktop virtual machine monitor primarily developed by Red Hat.[3]
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| Developer(s) | Red Hat | 
|---|---|
| Stable release | 4.1.0
   /    August 4, 2022[1]  | 
| Repository | |
| Written in | Python[2] | 
| Operating system | Linux | 
| Type | Virtual machine | 
| License | GPL v2+ | 
| Website | virt-manager | 

Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) is based on libvirt and supports several Hypervisors
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 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
    
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Virtual Machine Manager.
- libvirt, the API used by Virtual Machine Manager to create and manage virtual machines
 
References
    
- "Virtual Machine Manager Releases Page". GitHub.
 - "virt-manager/virt-manager". Retrieved 23 June 2018 – via GitHub.
 -  
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.
 - "Add bhyve support". Anzwix. 11 April 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
 - "virt-manager 1.0.1-1 (any)". Arch Linux. 25 March 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
 - "deskutils/virt-manager". FreshPorts. Jan 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
 - "sysutils/virt-manager". The NetBSD Packages Collection. May 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
 - "sysutils/virt-manager". OpenBSD CVSweb. Nov 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
 
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):
 - Fedora documentation:
 - Ubuntu official documentation:
 - Libvirt documentation:
 
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