virt-manager

"Virtual Machine Manager" redirects here. For the Microsoft software, see System Center Virtual Machine Manager. For a class of products that manage and host virtual machines, see Hypervisor.

Virtual Machine Manager
Virtual Machine Manager running Haiku (installation phase)
Developer	Red Hat
Stable release	5.1.0 / August 26, 2025 (2025-08-26)
Repository	{{URL|example.com|optional display text}}
Written in	Python
Engine
Operating system	Linux
Type	Virtual machine
License	GPL v2+

Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) is based on libvirt and supports several Hypervisors

virt-manager is a desktop virtual machine monitor primarily developed by Red Hat.

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.

Distributions including Virtual Machine Manager

Virtual Machine Manager comes as the virt-manager package in:

• Arch Linux
• CentOS
• Debian (since lenny)
• Fedora (since version 6)
• FreeBSD (via Ports collection)
• Frugalware
• Gentoo
• Mandriva Linux (since release 2007.1)
• MXLinux
• NetBSD (via pkgsrc)
• NixOS
• OpenBSD (via Ports collection)
• 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