2008-04-23 17:08:31 +00:00
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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. If you know
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of interesting applications not listed on this page, send
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a message to the <a href="contact.html">mailing list</a>
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to request that it be added here. If your application uses
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libvirt as its API, the following graphic is available for
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your website to advertise support for libvirt:
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<p class="image">
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<img src="madeWith.png" alt="Made with libvirt"/>
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<h2>Command line tools</h2>
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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-install</a></dt>
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<dd>
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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://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://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://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://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>Desktop applications</h2>
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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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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>Web applications</h2>
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<dt><a href="http://ovirt.org/">oVirt</a></dt>
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<dd>
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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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2009-08-07 13:12:22 +00:00
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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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</dl>
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<h2>LiveCD / Appliances</h2>
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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 and 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>Monitoring plugins</h2>
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<dl>
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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://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 gather 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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or a full description of available please refer to the libvirt section
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in the collectd.conf(5) manual page.
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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 for adding 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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