Management Tools

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There are a several options available to manage kvm virtual machines:


Name/URL Description UI Type Last Updated Notes
Plain old qemu/kvm You can run qemu/kvm straight from the command line cli active kvm|qemu-kvm) for more info
Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) A desktop user interface for managing virtual machines desktop active uses libvirt
GKVM a gnome user interface for KVM desktop 2007-08-01
AQemu a Qt4 user interface for KVM desktop active
kvmadm a minimalistic set of command-line tools to control multi-user utilization of KVM cli 2007-09-25
Proxmox VE an easy to use Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines web active
ConVirt an intuitive, graphical management console providing comprehensive life cycle management for Virtual Machines and virtualization infrastructures web? active basic support for kvm added in 0.9.1; formerly known as xenman
OpenNebula an open source virtual infrastructure engine cli & xml-rpc active cloud computing managment; uses libvirt