Chapter 31. Managing guests with the Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager)

31.1. Starting virt-manager
31.2. The Virtual Machine Manager main window
31.3. The virtual hardware details window
31.4. Virtual Machine graphical console
31.5. Adding a remote connection
31.6. Displaying guest details
31.7. Performance monitoring
31.8. Displaying CPU usage
31.9. Displaying Disk I/O
31.10. Displaying Network I/O
31.11. Managing a virtual network
31.12. Creating a virtual network

This section describes the Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) windows, dialog boxes, and various GUI controls.

virt-manager provides a graphical view of hypervisors and guest on your system and on remote machines. You can use virt-manager to define virtualized guests. virt-manager can perform virtualization management tasks, including:

assigning memory,
assigning virtual CPUs,
monitoring operational performance,
saving and restoring, pausing and resuming, and shutting down and starting virtualized guests,
links to the textual and graphical consoles, and
live and offline migrations.

31.1. Starting virt-manager

To start virt-manager session open the Applications menu, then the System Tools menu and select Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager).

The virt-manager main window appears.

Figure 31.1. Starting `virt-manager`

Alternatively, virt-manager can be started remotely using ssh as demonstrated in the following command:

ssh -X host's address
[remotehost]# virt-manager

Using ssh to manage virtual machines and hosts is discussed further in Section 19.1, “Remote management with SSH”.