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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 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.²

Distributions including Virtual Machine Manager

Virtual Machine Manager comes as the virt-manager package in:

• Arch Linux³
• CentOS
• Debian (since lenny)
• Fedora (since version 6)
• FreeBSD (via Ports collection)⁴
• Frugalware
• Gentoo
• Mandriva Linux (since release 2007.1)
• MXLinux
• NetBSD (via pkgsrc)⁵
• NixOS
• OpenBSD (via Ports collection)⁶
• 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

• libvirt, the API used by Virtual Machine Manager to create and manage virtual machines

External links

• Official website

References

1. 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. 978-0-596-15448-6 ↩

2. "Add bhyve support". Anzwix. 11 April 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014. http://anzwix.com/a/virt-manager/AddBhyveSupport ↩

3. "virt-manager 4.1.0-2 (any)". Arch Linux. 19 May 2023. Retrieved 13 November 2023. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/virt-manager/ ↩

4. "deskutils/virt-manager". FreshPorts. Jan 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2018. https://www.freshports.org/deskutils/virt-manager/ ↩

5. "sysutils/virt-manager". The NetBSD Packages Collection. May 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014. http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/sysutils/virt-manager/README.html ↩

6. "sysutils/virt-manager". OpenBSD CVSweb. Nov 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2015. http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/virt-manager/ ↩