Virt-manager
Virtualisation software
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virt-manager is a desktop virtual machine monitor primarily developed by Red Hat.[3]
| Virtual Machine Manager | |
|---|---|
| |
 Virtual Machine Manager running Haiku (installation phase) | |
| Developer | Red Hat |
| Stable release | 5.1.0
/ August 26, 2025[1] |
| Written in | Python[2] |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | Virtual machine |
| License | GPL v2+ |
| Website | virt-manager |
| Repository | |
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 Linux[5]
- Alpine Linux[6]
- 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
- libvirt, the API used by Virtual Machine Manager to create and manage virtual machines
