Virtual Machine Manager

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Virtual Machine Manager

Virtual Machine Manager running Windows XP on an Ubuntu host
Developed by Red Hat
Latest release 0.5.4 / March 10, 2008 (2008-03-10); 96 days ago
OS Linux
Genre Virtual machine
License GPL v2+
Website http://virt-manager.org/

Virtual Machine Manager is an application to manage virtual machines.

[edit] Features

Virtual Machine Manager allows users to:

  • Create, edit, start and stop VMs.
  • View and control of each VMs console
  • See performance & utilization statistics for each VM
  • View all running VMs and hosts and their live performance & resource utilization statistics.
  • Use KVM, Xen or QEMU virtual machines, running either locally or remotely.

[edit] Distributions including Virtual Machine Manager

Virtual Machine Manager is packaged as 'virt-manager' in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Fedora since version 6 and Ubuntu 8.04.

[edit] Documentation

Documentation is provided both inside Virtual Machine Manager at its website, [1]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 documentation is provided in the RHEL Virtualization Guide [2]

Ubuntu 8.04 documentation is provided at the Ubuntu Server Guide [3]

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