virt-manager

desktop application for managing virtual machines
  https://virt-manager.org/
  19
  16 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 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.
Latest reviews
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rajke88 2 weeks ago

Amazing software, but just keep in mind that you will have to execute following command after installation in order to work sudo usermod -aG libvirt $(whoami) and sudo usermod -aG kvm $(whoami). Hope that helps someone.

5
MintyBuntu5816 4 months ago

The only Virtualization alternative to VirtualBox, complicated at first but you may get used to it. It doesn't have any issues whatsoever and its actuallly a Great alternative to VirtualBox, put some Qcow2 and ISO images in there and boom, works perfectly fine without any issues, but requires troubleshooting on your own if you know the basics of Virtualization. Documentation is available at their official site for the front end of KVM and QEMU. If you want a better alternative to VirtualBox, then Virtual Machine Manager is top recommended.

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rjlohman1966 3 years ago

I don't know what happened since the last time I installed virt-manager, but it completely broke my desktop. Ended up having to reinstall Mint to get my desktop back. Stay away! This will completely jack your machine!

5
rikerlinux 3 years ago

Chega a ser melhor do que o Virtualbox ou o VMware, pois utiliza recursos nativos do Kernel Linux através do Qemu/KVM otimizando a virtualização

2
powerhouse 8 years ago

Revised my previous review: A pain in the neck if used with KVM

5
tripy 8 years ago

Awesome tool. KVM + this made me ditch virtualbox. If you are on lmde and cannot create a vm, edit /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf and change the group from "root" to "kvm"

4
mwgraves10 9 years ago

It's actually pretty easy to set up out of the box. But it would be nice to have a 3D video driver.

5
GoGoris 10 years ago

Combines the near-native performance of KVM with a user-friendly UI

5
iv_istvan_varga 10 years ago

Great help for work

5
Necrophagos 10 years ago

The tool is awesome. Feels a little like vmware player. I had to install libvirt-bin to make it work with qemu.

1
crhylove 10 years ago

Broken out of the box. Learned how to use qemu from CLI. Stupid easy in hindsight.

5
bestgs 11 years ago

The best virtualization management tool for linux!

5
nagalman 11 years ago

The best GUI manager for the best virtualization technology on Linux.. KVM

4
mpkingsley 13 years ago

Great Gui option for KVM; not had much luck using it for xen.

5
egcalso 13 years ago

Great help for using kvm and qemu!

5
iTophux 13 years ago

very simple virtual manager for hypervisor kvm & qemu & xen