Virtual Machine Manager
The Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager for short) is a desktop application for managing virtual machines. Since it uses libvirt, it is capable of managing machines from any hypervisor supported by libvirt. Xen is the current primary target. The application's views provide summaries and detailed statistics on performance and resource utilization. A wizard facilitates creation of new guest domains, both para-virtualized and fully-virtualized. Console access is enabled either to a text based serial console or fully graphical access via an embedded VNC client.
| Tags | Systems Administration |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | Python |
Recent releases
- 11 Mar 2008 02:11
Changes: Smooth resize of the guest console, support for all libvirt authentication methods including Kerberos and PolicyKit, a Solaris portability fix for the text console, and support for detecting bonding and VLAN devices for attaching guest NICs. fullvirt guests are now allowed to install off kernel and initrd as well as existing CD-ROM methods. Invocation of DBus methods was fixed to use an interface. Setting of autostart flag and changing boot device ordering is now allowed. New VM creation is controlled based on declared hypervisor capabilities.
- 10 Jan 2008 22:52
Changes: This is a bug fix release. The sizing of the VNC window was fixed for screens where the physical size is less than the guest screen size. The "new vm" button is switched back to its old more obvious style and placement. Restoration of VMs is working again for local connections. A menu for sending special key sequences to the guest is added. Lots of other miscellaneous bugs were fixed.
- 29 Aug 2007 16:48
Changes: This release introduces the ability to manage multiple remote machines, using either SSH+public keys or TLS+x509 certificates to connect and authenticate. The main user interface is re-worked to show multiple hosts in a tree view, remembering connections across restarts. The guest VNC console implementation has been replaced with the GTK-VNC widget for greatly improved performance and increased feature set. Other miscellaneous bugfixes and feature enhancements are also included.
- 22 Feb 2007 14:26
Changes: This release adds support for managing virtual machines running under the QEMU or KVM virtualization platforms. It has a workaround for the 'dual cursor' problem in the guest console by grabbing the pointer and hiding the local cursor. The progress feedback display when installing new guest virtual machines has been improved.
- 23 Jan 2007 03:32
Changes: This release brings a major functionality update, enabling of inactive domain management. Thus the display of virtual machines will also now list all guests which are in the 'shutoff' state. Such guests can be started with the 'Run' button in the virtual console window. There have also been a variety of other minor UI fixes and enhancements such as progress bars during guest creation, reliability fixes to the virtual console, and even greater coverage for translations.
