Installation guide

Chapter 27. 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 guest on your system and on remote
machines. You can use virt-manager to define both para-virtualized and fully virtualized guests.
virt-manager can perform virtualization management tasks, including:
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.
27.1. T he Add Connect ion window
This window appears first and prompts the user to choose a hypervisor session. Non-privileged
users can initiate a read-only session. Root users can start a session with full blown read-write
status. For normal use, select the Local Xen host option or QEMU (for KVM).
Fig u re 27.1. Virt u al Mach in e Man ag er co n n ect io n win d o w
⁠Chapt er 2 7 . Man aging guest s wit h t he Virt ual Machine Manager (virt - manager)
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