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<h1>Applications using <strong>libvirt</strong></h1>
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This page provides an illustration of the wide variety of
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applications using the libvirt management API.
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<ul id="toc"></ul>
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<h2><a name="add">Add an application</a></h2>
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<p>
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To add an application not listed on this page, send a message
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to the <a href="contact.html">mailing list</a>, requesting it
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be added here. If your application uses libvirt as its API,
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the following graphic is available for your website to advertise
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support for libvirt:
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</p>
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<p class="image">
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<img src="madeWith.png" alt="Made with libvirt"/>
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</p>
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<h2><a name="clientserver">Client/Server applications</a></h2>
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<dt><a href="http://archipelproject.org">Archipel</a></dt>
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<dd>
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Archipel is a libvirt-based solution to manage and supervise virtual
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machines. It uses XMPP for all communication. There is no web
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service or custom protocol. You just need at least one XMPP server,
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like eJabberd, to start playing with it. This allows Archipel to
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work completely real time. You never have to refresh the user
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interface, you'll be notified as soon as something happens. You can
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even use your favorite chat clients to command your infrastructure.
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</dd>
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<dd>
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Isn't it great to be able to open a chat conversation with your
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virtual machine and say things like "How are you today?" or "Hey,
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please reboot"?
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<h2><a name="command">Command line tools</a></h2>
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<dl>
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<dt><a href="http://libguestfs.org">guestfish</a></dt>
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<dd>
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Guestfish is an interactive shell and command-line tool for examining
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and modifying virtual machine filesystems. It uses libvirt to find
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guests and their associated disks.
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</dd>
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<dt>virsh</dt>
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<dd>
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An interactive shell, and batch scriptable tool for performing
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management tasks on all libvirt managed domains, networks and
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storage. This is part of the libvirt core distribution.
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</dd>
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<dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-clone</a></dt>
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<dd>
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Allows the disk image(s) and configuration for an existing
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virtual machine to be cloned to form a new virtual machine.
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It automates copying of data across to new disk images, and
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updates the UUID, MAC address, and name in the configuration.
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</dd>
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<dt><a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/">virt-df</a></dt>
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<dd>
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Examine the utilization of each filesystem in a virtual machine
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from the comfort of the host machine. This tool peeks into the
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guest disks and determines how much space is used. It can cope
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with common Linux filesystems and LVM volumes.
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</dd>
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<dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-image</a></dt>
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<dd>
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Provides a way to deploy virtual appliances. It defines a
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simplified portable XML format describing the pre-requisites
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of a virtual machine. At time of deployment this is translated
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into the domain XML format for execution under any libvirt
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hypervisor meeting the pre-requisites.
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</dd>
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<dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-install</a></dt>
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Provides a way to provision new virtual machines from a
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OS distribution install tree. It supports provisioning from
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local CD images, and the network over NFS, HTTP and FTP.
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</dd>
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<dt><a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/">virt-top</a></dt>
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<dd>
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Watch the CPU, memory, network and disk utilization of all
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virtual machines running on a host.
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<h2><a name="desktop">Desktop applications</a></h2>
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<dl>
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<dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-manager</a></dt>
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<dd>
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A general purpose desktop management tool, able to manage
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virtual machines across both local and remotely accessed
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hypervisors. It is targeted at home and small office usage
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upto managing 10-20 hosts and their VMs.
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</dd>
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<dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-viewer</a></dt>
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<dd>
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A lightweight tool for accessing the graphical console
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associated with a virtual machine. It can securely connect
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to remote consoles supporting the VNC protocol. Also provides
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an optional mozilla browser plugin.
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<h2><a name="libraries">Libraries</a></h2>
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<dl>
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<dt><a href="http://libguestfs.org">libguestfs</a></dt>
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<dd>
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A library and set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual
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machine disk images. It can be linked with C and C++ management
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programs, and has bindings for Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, OCaml,
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PHP, Haskell, and C#.
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</dd>
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<dd>
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Using its FUSE module, you can also mount guest filesystems on the
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host, and there is a subproject to allow merging changes into the
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Windows Registry in Windows guests.
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<h2><a name="livecd">LiveCD / Appliances</a></h2>
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<dl>
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<dt><a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/">virt-p2v</a></dt>
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<dd>
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A tool for converting a physical machine into a virtual machine. It
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is a LiveCD which is booted on the machine to be converted. It collects
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a little information from the user, then copies the disks over to
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a remote machine and defines the XML for a domain to run the guest.
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<h2><a name="monitoring">Monitoring plugins</a></h2>
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<dt><a href="http://collectd.org/plugins/libvirt.shtml">for collectd</a></dt>
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<dd>
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The libvirt-plugin is part of <a href="http://collectd.org/">collectd</a>
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and gathers statistics about virtualized guests on a system. This
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way, you can collect CPU, network interface and block device usage
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for each guest without installing collectd on the guest systems.
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For a full description, please refer to the libvirt section in the
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collectd.conf(5) manual page.
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</dd>
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<dt><a href="http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/libvirt/#munin">for munin</a></dt>
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<dd>
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The plugins provided by Guido Günther allow to monitor various things
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like network and block I/O with
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<a href="http://munin.projects.linpro.no/">Munin</a>.
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</dd>
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<dt><a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/nagios-virt/">nagios-virt</a></dt>
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<dd>
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Nagios-virt is a configuration tool to add monitoring of your
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virtualised domains to <a href="http://www.nagios.org/">Nagios</a>.
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You can use this tool to either set up a new Nagios installation for
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your Xen or QEMU/KVM guests, or to integrate with your existing Nagios
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installation.
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<h2><a name="web">Web applications</a></h2>
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<dt><a href="http://community.abiquo.com/display/AbiCloud">AbiCloud</a></dt>
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<dd>
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AbiCloud is an open source cloud platform manager which allows to
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easily deploy a private cloud in your datacenter. One of the key
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differences of AbiCloud is the web rich interface for managing the
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infrastructure. You can deploy a new service just dragging and
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dropping a VM.
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</dd>
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<dt><a href="http://ovirt.org/">oVirt</a></dt>
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oVirt provides the ability to manage large numbers of virtual
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machines across an entire data center of hosts. It integrates
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with FreeIPA for Kerberos authentication, and in the future,
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certificate management.
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</dd>
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</dl>
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