Archive:Tools/VirtAppDevelopment

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This page deals with management applications for virtualization in Fedora. These are all being built on top of the virtualization APIs included in Fedora

Virtual Machine Manager (aka virt-manager)

The Virtual Machine Manager application is a desktop GUI built on top of libvirt for managing the lifecycle of virtual machines. It currently supports management of the Xen hypervisor on a local box - the VMWare Workstation use case. The following is a wishlist for work in FC7 (and beyond):

• Remote (off-node) management
• QEMU management
• Ability to change CDROM devices
• Ability to install paravirt guests off local CD/DVD media
• Ability to use a cobbler / koan server as the install source
• Support for non-Fedora paravirtualized install sources (eg, SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo etc)

Virt Guest Install (aka virtguest-install)

The virtguest-install script provides a command line interface for creation of virtual machines. It uses the same underlying libraries as virt-manager for its work.

Cobbler / Koan provisioning tools

The Cobbler & Koan tools provide a means for provisioning bare metal & virtualized systems in a single toolkit.