| Virtual Machine Manager | |
|---|---|
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 Virtual Machine Manager running Haiku (installation phase) | |
| Developer | Red Hat |
| Stable release | 5.1.0
/ August 26, 2025 (2025-08-26)1 |
| Written in | Python2 |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | Virtual machine |
| License | GPL v2+ |
| Website | virt-manager |
| Repository | |
virt-manager is a desktop virtual machine monitor primarily developed by Red Hat.3
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.4
Distributions including Virtual Machine Manager
Virtual Machine Manager comes as the virt-manager package in:
- Arch Linux5
- Alpine Linux6
- CentOS
- Debian (since lenny)
- Fedora (since version 6)
- FreeBSD (via Ports collection)7
- Frugalware
- Gentoo
- Mandriva Linux (since release 2007.1)
- MXLinux
- NetBSD (via pkgsrc)8
- NixOS
- OpenBSD (via Ports collection)9
- 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
See also
- libvirt, the API used by Virtual Machine Manager to create and manage virtual machines
References
References
- "Virtual Machine Manager Releases Page". GitHub.
- "virt-manager/virt-manager". Retrieved 23 June 2018 – via GitHub.
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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 4.1.0-2 (any)". Arch Linux. 19 May 2023. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- "virt-manager 5.0.0-r0 (any)". Alpine Linux. 3 December 2024. Retrieved 27 December 2025.
- "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.