virt-manager

Name: virt-manager
Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but also manages Xen and LXC (linux...

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What is virt-manager?

The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but also manages Xen and LXC (linux containers). It presents a summary view of running domains, their live performance & resource utilization statistics. Wizards enable the creation of new domains, and configuration & adjustment of a domain’s resource allocation & virtual hardware. An embedded VNC and SPICE client viewer presents a full graphical console to the guest domain.

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Container Virtualizationvirt-manager can make use of isolated user spaces called "containers" to run applications.
Lightweightvirt-manager consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Command line interfacevirt-manager either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Privacy focusedvirt-manager is considered a privacy friendly alternative.

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Developed byDaniel P. Berrangé
LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
RatingAverage rating of 5
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virt-manager was added to AlternativeTo by Togusav on and this page was last updated . virt-manager is sometimes referred to as Virtual Machine Manager, virt manager.

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arpeters

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Top positive comment• ago

Just because VirtualBox is not in Debian packages anymore, I could not trust it any further. There is where Virt Manager kicks in with its far more advanced interface. Found it as an alternative to VirtualBox and didn't regret even a little. Highly recommended fully open source software (FOSS).

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virt-manager can handle clusters of several physical VM hosts, each running many VMs. It offers advanced orchestration features such as migrating VMs between hosts with no downtime, storage provisioning, networking/firewall configuration and live snapshots. A major difference between Kubernetes and virt-manager (as well as the libvirt ecosystem in general) is that Kubernetes manages containers, whereas libvirt manages full VMs running on a hypervisor such as KVM, Xen or ESX.

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