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 graphic is available for your website to advertise
support for libvirt:
- Archipel
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Archipel is a libvirt-based solution to manage and supervise virtual
machines. It uses XMPP for all communication. There is no web
service or custom protocol. You just need at least one XMPP server,
like eJabberd, to start playing with it. This allows Archipel to
work completely real time. You never have to refresh the user
interface, you'll be notified as soon as something happens. You can
even use your favorite chat clients to command your infrastructure.
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Isn't it great to be able to open a chat conversation with your
virtual machine and say things like "How are you today?" or "Hey,
please reboot"?
- 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.
- 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 Slave,
selecting the guest domain and hypervisor. When you need to build a
job on a specific Slave, 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.
- Poor mans p2v
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A simple approach for converting a physical machine to a virtual
machine, using a rescue CD.
- 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.
- virt-v2v
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virt-v2v converts guests from a foreign hypervisor to run on KVM,
managed by libvirt. It can currently convert Red Hat Enterprise
Linux (RHEL) and Fedora guests running on Xen and VMware ESX. It
will enable VirtIO drivers in the converted guest if possible.
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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
upto 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Zenoss
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The Zenoss libvirt Zenpack adds support for monitoring virtualization
servers. It has been tested with KVM, QEMU, VMware ESX, and VMware
GSX.
- 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.
- 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.