Chapter 15. Managing Guests with the Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager)
Chapter 15. Managing Guests with the Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) 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 guests on your host system and on remote host systems. virt-manager can perform virtualization management tasks, including: defining and creating guests, assigning memory, assigning virtual CPUs, monitoring operational performance, saving and restoring, pausing and resuming, and shutting down and starting guests, links to the textual and graphical consoles, and live and offline migrations. 15.1. 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 15.1. Starting virt-manager Alternatively, virt-manager can be started remotely using ssh as demonstrated in the following command: Using ssh to manage virtual machines and hosts is discussed further in Section 5.1, "Remote Management with SSH" .
ssh -X host's address virt-manager