Applications using libvirt
This page provides an illustration of the wide variety of
applications using the libvirt management API.
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support for libvirt:
- virsh
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An interactive shell, and batch scriptable tool for performing
management tasks on all libvirt managed domains, networks and
storage. This is part of the libvirt core distribution.
- virt-install
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Provides a way to provision new virtual machines from a
OS distribution install tree. It supports provisioning from
local CD images, and the network over NFS, HTTP and FTP.
- virt-clone
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Allows the disk image(s) and configuration for an existing
virtual machine to be cloned to form a new virtual machine.
It automates copying of data across to new disk images, and
updates the UUID, Mac address and name in the configuration
- virt-image
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Provides a way to deploy virtual appliances. It defines a
simplified portable XML format describing the pre-requisites
of a virtual machine. At time of deployment this is translated
into the domain XML format for execution under any libvirt
hypervisor meeting the pre-requisites.
- virt-df
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Examine the utilization of each filesystem in a virtual machine
from the comfort of the host machine. This tool peeks into the
guest disks and determines how much space is used. It can cope
with common Linux filesystems and LVM volumes.
- virt-top
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Watch the CPU, memory, network and disk utilization of all
virtual machines running on a host.
- virt-manager
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A general purpose desktop management tool, able to manage
virtual machines across both local and remotely accessed
hypervisors. It is targeted at home and small office usage
upto managing 10-20 hosts and their VMs.
- virt-viewer
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A lightweight tool for accessing the graphical console
associated with a virtual machine. It can securely connect
to remote consoles supporting the VNC protocol. Also provides
an optional mozilla browser plugin.
- oVirt
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oVirt provides the ability to manage large numbers of virtual
machines across an entire data center of hosts. It integrates
with FreeIPA for Kerberos authentication, and in the future,
certificate management.
- AbiCloud
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AbiCloud is an open source cloud platform manager which allows to
easily deploy a private cloud in your datacenter. One of the key
differences of AbiCloud is the web rich interface for managing the
infrastructure. You can deploy a new service just dragging and
dropping a VM.
- virt-p2v
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A tool for converting a physical machine into a virtual machine. It
is a LiveCD which is booted on the machine to be converted. It collects
a little information from the user and then copies the disks over to
a remote machine and defines the XML for a domain to run the guest.
- for munin
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The plugins provided by Guido Günther allow to monitor various things
like network and block I/O with
Munin.
- for collectd
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The libvirt-plugin is part of collectd
and gather statistics about virtualized guests on a system. This
way, you can collect CPU, network interface and block device usage
for each guest without installing collectd on the guest systems.
or a full description of available please refer to the libvirt section
in the collectd.conf(5) manual page.
- nagios-virt
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Nagios-virt is a configuration tool for adding monitoring of your
virtualised domains to Nagios.
You can use this tool to either set up a new Nagios installation for
your Xen or QEMU/KVM guests, or to integrate with your existing Nagios
installation.