Applications using libvirt
This page provides an illustration of the wide variety of
applications using the libvirt management API.
To add an application not listed on this page, send a message
to the mailing list, requesting it
be added here, or simply send a patch against the documentation
in the libvirt.git docs subdirectory.
If your application uses libvirt as its API,
the following graphics are available for your website to advertise
support for libvirt:
- guestfish
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Guestfish is an interactive shell and command-line tool for examining
and modifying virtual machine filesystems. It uses libvirt to find
guests and their associated disks.
- 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-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-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-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-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-top
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Watch the CPU, memory, network and disk utilization of all
virtual machines running on a host.
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virt-what
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virt-what is a shell script for detecting if the program is running
in a virtual machine. It prints out a list of facts about the
virtual machine, derived from heuristics.
- stap
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SystemTap is a tool used to gather rich information about a running
system through the use of scripts. Starting from v2.4, the front-end
application stap can use libvirt to gather data within virtual
machines.
- vagrant-libvirt
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Vagrant-Libvirt is a Vagrant plugin that uses libvirt to manage virtual
machines. It is a command line tool for developers that makes it very
fast and easy to deploy and re-deploy an environment of vm's.
- virt-lightning
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Virt-Lightning uses libvirt, cloud-init and libguestfs to allow anyone
to quickly start a new VM. Very much like a container CLI, but with a
virtual machine.
- LCFG
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LCFG is a system for automatically installing and managing the
configuration of large numbers of Unix systems. It is particularly
suitable for sites with very diverse and rapidly changing
configurations.
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The lcfg-libvirt package adds support for virtualized systems to
LCFG, with both Xen and KVM known to work. Cloning guests is
supported, as are the bridged, routed, and isolated modes for
Virtual Networking.
- BuildBot
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BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required
by most software projects. CVS commits trigger new builds, run on
a variety of client machines. Build status (pass/fail/etc) are
displayed on a web page or through other protocols.
- Jenkins
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This plugin for Jenkins adds a way to control guest domains hosted
on Xen or QEMU/KVM. You configure a Jenkins Agent,
selecting the guest domain and hypervisor. When you need to build a
job on a specific Agent, its guest domain is started, then the job is
run. When the build process is finished, the guest domain is shut
down, ready to be used again as required.
- virt-p2v
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Convert a physical machine to run on KVM. It is a LiveCD
which is booted on the machine to be converted. It collects a
little information from the user, then copies the disks over
to a remote machine and defines the XML for a domain to run
the guest. (Note this tool is included with libguestfs)
- virt-v2v
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virt-v2v converts guests from a foreign hypervisor to run on
KVM, managed by libvirt. It can convert guests from VMware or
Xen to run on OpenStack, oVirt (RHEV-M), or local libvirt. It
will enable VirtIO drivers in the converted guest if possible.
(Note this tool is included with libguestfs)
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For RHEL customers of Red Hat, conversion of Windows guests is also
possible. This conversion requires some Microsoft signed pieces,
that Red Hat can provide.
- vmware2libvirt
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Part of the virt-goodies package, vmware2libvirt is a python
script for migrating a vmware image to libvirt.
- 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
up to 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.
- qt-virt-manager
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The Qt GUI for create and control VMs and another virtual entities
(aka networks, storages, interfaces, secrets, network filters).
Contains integrated LXC/SPICE/VNC viewer for accessing the graphical or
text console associated with a virtual machine or container.
- qt-remote-viewer
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The Qt VNC/SPICE viewer for access to remote desktops or VMs.
- Cracow Cloud One
- The CC1 system provides a complete solution for Private
Cloud Computing. An intuitive web access interface with an
administration module and simple installation procedure make
it easy to benefit from private Cloud Computing technology.
- Eucalyptus
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Eucalyptus is an on-premise Infrastructure as a Service cloud
software platform that is open source and
AWS-compatible. Eucalyptus uses libvirt virtualization API to
directly interact with Xen and KVM hypervisors.
- Nimbus
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Nimbus is an open-source toolkit focused on providing
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) capabilities to the scientific
community. It uses libvirt for communication with all KVM and Xen
virtual machines.
- Snooze
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Snooze is an open-source scalable, autonomic, and energy-efficient
virtual machine (VM) management framework for private clouds. It
integrates libvirt for VM monitoring, live migration, and life-cycle
management.
- OpenStack
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OpenStack is a "cloud operating system" usable for both public
and private clouds. Its various parts take care of compute,
storage and networking resources and interface with the user
using a dashboard. Compute part uses libvirt to manage VM
life-cycle, monitoring and so on.
- KubeVirt
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KubeVirt is a virtual machine management add-on for Kubernetes. The aim
is to provide a common ground for virtualization solutions on top of
Kubernetes.
- Cherrypop
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A cloud software with no masters or central points. Nodes
autodetect other nodes and autodistribute virtual
machines and autodivide up the workload. Also there is no
minimum limit for hosts, well, one might be nice. It's
perfect for setting up low-end servers in a cloud or a
cloud where you want the most bang for the bucks.
- ZStack
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ZStack is an open source IaaS software that aims to automate the
management of all resources (compute, storage, networking, etc.) in a
datacenter by using APIs, thus conforming to the principles of a
software-defined datacenter. The key strengths of ZStack in terms of
management are scalability, performance, and a fast, user-friendly
deployment.
- libguestfs
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A library and set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual
machine disk images. It can be linked with C and C++ management
programs, and has bindings for Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, OCaml,
PHP, Haskell, and C#.
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Using its FUSE module, you can also mount guest filesystems on the
host, and there is a subproject to allow merging changes into the
Windows Registry in Windows guests.
- libvirt-sandbox
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A library and command line tools for simplifying the creation of
application sandboxes using virtualization technology. It currently
supports either KVM, QEMU or LXC as backends. Integration with
systemd facilitates sandboxing of system services like apache.
- Ruby
Libvirt Object bindings
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Allows using simple ruby objects to manipulate
hypervisors, guests, storage, network etc. It is
based on top of
the native ruby bindings.
- virt-p2v
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An older 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, then
copies the disks over to a remote machine and defines the XML for a
domain to run the guest.
- collectd
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The libvirt-plugin is part of collectd
and gathers 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.
For a full description, please refer to the libvirt section in the
collectd.conf(5) manual page.
- Host sFlow
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Host sFlow is a lightweight agent running on KVM hypervisors that
links to libvirt library and exports standardized cpu, memory, network
and disk metrics for all virtual machines.
- Munin
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The plugins provided by Guido Günther allow to monitor various things
like network and block I/O with
Munin.
- Nagios-virt
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Nagios-virt is a configuration tool to add 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.
- PCP
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The PCP libvirt PMDA (plugin) is part of the
PCP toolkit and provides
hypervisor and guest information and complete set of guest performance
metrics. It supports pCPU, vCPU, memory, block device, network interface,
and performance event metrics for each virtual guest.
- Tivoli Provisioning Manager
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Part of the IBM Tivoli family, Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM) is
an IT lifecycle automation product. It
uses libvirt
for communication with virtualization hosts and guest domains.
- Foreman
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Foreman is an open source web based application aimed to be a
Single Address For All Machines Life Cycle Management. Foreman:
- Creates everything you need when adding a new machine to
your network, its goal being automatically managing
everything you would normally manage manually (DNS, DHCP,
TFTP, Virtual Machines,CA, CMDB...)
- Integrates with Puppet (and acts as web front end to it).
- Takes care of provisioning until the point puppet is
running, allowing Puppet to do what it does best.
- Shows you Systems Inventory (based on Facter) and
provides real time information about hosts status based on
Puppet reports.
- 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.
- Kimchi
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Kimchi is an HTML5 based management tool for KVM. It is designed to
make it as easy as possible to get started with KVM and create your first guest.
Kimchi manages KVM guests through libvirt. The management interface is accessed
over the web using a browser that supports HTML5.
- 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.
- VMmanager
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VMmanager is a software solution for virtualization management
that can be used both for hosting virtual machines and
building a cloud. VMmanager can manage not only one server,
but a large cluster of hypervisors. It delivers a number of
functions, such as live migration that allows for load
balancing between cluster nodes, monitoring CPU, memory.
- mist.io
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Mist.io is an open source project and a service that can assist you in
managing your virtual machines on a unified way, providing a simple
interface for all of your infrastructure (multiple public cloud
providers, OpenStack based public/private clouds, Docker servers, bare
metal servers and now KVM hypervisors).
- Ravada
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Ravada is an open source tool for managing Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure (VDI). It is very easy to install and use. Following
the documentation, you'll be ready to deploy virtual machines in
minutes. The only requirements for the users are a Web browser and
a lightweight remote viewer.
- Virtlyst
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Virtlyst is an open source web application built with C++11, Cutelyst and Qt.
It features:
- Low memory usage (around 5 MiB of RAM)
- Look and feel easily customized with HTML templates that use the Django syntax
- VNC/Spice console directly in the browser using websockets on the same HTTP port
- Host and Domain statistics graphs (CPU, Memory, IO, Network)
- Connect to multiple libvirtd instances (over local Unix domain socket, SSH, TCP and TLS)
- Manage Storage Pools, Storage Volumes, Networks, Interfaces, and Secrets
- Create and launch VMs
- Configure VMs with easy panels or go pro and edit the VM's XML
- Cuckoo Sandbox
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Cuckoo Sandbox is a malware analysis system. You can throw
any suspicious file at it and in a matter of seconds Cuckoo
will provide you back some detailed results outlining what
such file did when executed inside an isolated environment.
And libvirt is one of the backends that can be used for the
isolated environment.