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Management Tools

2013-10-25T19:39:26Z

Witsbits: Removed duplicate entry of Virtualbricks

There are a several options available to manage kvm virtual machines:

{|

|-
!Name/URL
!Description
!UI Type
!Active|Last Updated
!Notes
!License

|-
|[http://witsbits.com/ Witsbits]
|Witsbits enables you to set up your servers with virtualization and deploy virtual machines faster than ever before. It’s a complete virtualization solution with a self-upgrading hypervisor and cloud-based centralized management, reducing time spent on maintenance to a fraction of what other solutions require. The self-configuring hypervisor comes as a Live CD, delivering the fastest time-to-deployment by removing the need for spending time on installation and configuration.
|Web
|Active
|Live CD Hypervisor with SaaS Management System
|Free for 5 CPUs (full version)

|-
|[http://www.eucalyptus.com/ Eucalyptus]
|Eucalyptus is an open source on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud software platform that leverages existing compute, storage, and network resources to create scalable, secure enterprise-grade clouds.
|Web, CLI, REST, SOAP
|Active
|Supports KVM, Xen, and VMware
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]

|-
|[http://www.univention.de/en/products/univention-corporate-server/management-system/ UCS] / [http://www.univention.de/en/products/univention-corporate-server/ucs-komponenten/virtualization/ucs-virtual-machine-manager/ UVMM]
|UCS Virtual Machine Manager (UVMM) is a simple-to-use, high-performance management system for KVM and XEN. UVMM offers all the necessary functions for creating and administrating virtual instances and hard drives on physical servers as well as their assignment to each other. Supports among other things live-migration of virtual systems and snapshots (with KVM).
|Web, CLI
|Active
|Supports KVM and Xen, Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|Commercial, Free for personal use edition available, [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]

|-
|Plain [http://www.linux-kvm.org qemu/kvm]
|You can run qemu/kvm straight from the command line
|CLI
|Active
|See man (qemu-system-x86_64 or kvm or qemu-kvm) for more info
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://libvirt.org virsh]
|A minimal shell around libvirt for managing VMs
|CLI
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.html LGPL]

|-
|[http://virt-manager.org VMM / Virtual Machine Manager]
|Also known as virt-manager. A desktop user interface for managing virtual machines.
|Desktop
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|VMM's supporting tools [http://virt-manager.org virt-install/clone/convert]
|Command line tools for provisioning new VMs, cloning existing VMs and importing / converting appliance images.
|CLI
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.redhat.com/rhev Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization / RHEV]
|Commercial management solution for RHEL / KVM.
|Web
|Active
|
|Commercial

|-
|[http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page Proxmox VE]
|Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines
|Web, CLI
|Active
|Bar-metall installer including KVM and OpenVZ management tools
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]
|-
|[http://www.convirture.com/products_opensource.php ConVirt]
|ConVirt 2.0 Open Source is the leading open source product for managing Xen and KVM, enabling you to standardize and proactively manage your virtualized environment in a centralized fashion.
|Web
|Active
|Xen & KVM; formerly known as xenman
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://ovirt.org/ oVirt]
|oVirt is a virtualization management framework constisting of a small host image, the oVirt Node, that provides the libvirt service to host virtual machines, and a robust vm management software stack, controlled by a web-based management interface, the oVirt Server.
|Web
|Active
|uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|[http://www.op5.com/op5-features/easy-monitoring-kvm/ op5]
|op5 develops and delivers op5 Monitor a enterprise-class software for IT monitoring and administration of the whole IT. op5 developed a KVM plug-in to monitor KVM virtualization infrastructure that allows organizations to have better capacity planning, which enables the provisioning of usage of resources such as storage, CPU, and memory more proactively.
|Web, REST
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php OpenNebula]
|an open source virtual infrastructure engine
|CLI, XML-RPC
|Active
|cloud computing managment; uses libvirt
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|[http://opennode.activesys.org OpenNode]
|RHEL/CentOS based open-source server virtualization and management solution - simple bare-metal installer, providing KVM+OpenVZ host and standard libvirt, func management interfaces together with standard cli tools like virsh and vzctl. OpenNode Management Server with ajax web-based management console available - as is RPC-JSON API interface.
|Web, CLI, API
|Active
|Bare-metal installer, KVM, OpenVZ hypervizors and variety of management tools
|Unknown
|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/ Ganeti]
|Ganeti is a cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies
|CLI
|Active
|KVM support added in Ganeti 2.0
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://karesansui-project.info/ Karesansui]
|Karesansui is an open-source virtualization management application. It's smart graphical user interface lowers your management cost, and brings a total management/audit solution for both physical and virtual servers.
|Web, REST
|Active
|KVM & Xen support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html LGPL v2.1]/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.openqrm.com/ openQRM]
|openQRM is the next generation, open-source Data-center management platform.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen, VMware and Linux V-Server support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.abiquo.com/ Abiquo]
|Abiquo is a technology-agnostic solution for enterprises and service providers who want to quickly and simply build, manage and develop public and private clouds based on their existing heterogeneous environments.
|Web, REST
|Active
|KVM, Xen, VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V & XenServer support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|Commercial

|-
|[http://cloudstack.org/ CloudStack]
|Cloudstack is an open source project that enables the deployment, management, and configuration of multi-tier and multi-tenant infrastructure cloud services using Xen, KVM and VMware hypervisors.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen & VMware support
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]

|-
|[http://nimbula.com/ Nimbula Director]
|Nimbula Director is a Cloud Operating System that enables Infrastructure as a Service using the KVM.
|Web, CLI, REST
|Active
|KVM support
|Commercial (Freemium)

|-
|[http://archipelproject.org/ Archipel]
|Archipel is an Open Source project that aims to bring push notifications to virtualization orchestration using XMPP.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen, Virtual Box & OpenVZ support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]

|-
|[http://codewreck.org/kvm-wrapper kvm-wrapper]
|kvm-wrapper is a lightweight, simple and intended to be hackable set of shell scripts that help manage kvm virtual machines a great deal.
|CLI
|Active
|KVM support
|[http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ WTFPL (v2)]

|-
|[http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Kvmtools kvm-admin]
|Python scripts for managing the guests (boot, shutdown ...) and include a commandline monitor .
|CLI
|Active
|kvm support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.solusvm.com/ SolusVM]
|The most popular control panel for commercial use.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen & OpenVZ support
|Commercial

|-
|[http://www.stackops.org/ Stackops Openstack Distro]
|Stackops is an Openstack Nova distribution verified and tested for KVM. You only need to download the ISO image with the distro and install it on one or more servers.
|CLI, REST
|Active
|KVM & QEMU (libvirt based)
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]

|-
|[http://www.webvirtmgr.net/ WebVirtMgr]
|Web service for managing VMs based on the KVM
|WEB
|Active
|Only KVM; use libvirt
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]

|-
|[http://theforeman.org Foreman]
|Foreman is aimed to be a Single Address For All Machines Life
Cycle Management including bare metal / vm / cloud provisioning, configuration managememnt and configureation reports/auditing using puppet
|Web, REST, CLI
|Active
| KVM, VMWare, oVirt RHEV-M, EC2, OpenStack
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]

|-
|[https://launchpad.net/virtualbrick Virtualbricks]
|Python-gtk GUI to manage guest and hybrid (host/guest) networks.
|CLI
|2011-11-23
|kvm, qemu, ksm & [http://vde.sourceforge.net/ VDE] support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/aqemu/ AQemu]
|a Qt4 user interface for KVM
|Desktop
|2011-07-27
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://src.enomaly.com/ Enomaly]
|a programmable virtual cloud infrastructure for small, medium and large businesses
|Web, REST
|Not available as of 2010-02-08
|they have commercial and open source editions
|Commercial/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]

|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/kvmadm/ kvmadm]
|a minimalistic set of command-line tools to control multi-user utilization of KVM
|CLI
|2007-09-25
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://gkvm.sourceforge.net/ GKVM]
|A Gnome user interface for KVM.
|Desktop
|2007-08-01
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[https://github.com/jstimpfle/kvmupdown kvmupdown]
|simple, robust and no-bloat management interface.
|CLI
|Link broken, probably terminated project
|KVM
|public domain

|}

Management Tools

2013-10-25T18:37:45Z

Witsbits: Changed License for Witsbits

There are a several options available to manage kvm virtual machines:

{|

|-
!Name/URL
!Description
!UI Type
!Active|Last Updated
!Notes
!License

|-
|[http://witsbits.com/ Witsbits]
|Witsbits enables you to set up your servers with virtualization and deploy virtual machines faster than ever before. It’s a complete virtualization solution with a self-upgrading hypervisor and cloud-based centralized management, reducing time spent on maintenance to a fraction of what other solutions require. The self-configuring hypervisor comes as a Live CD, delivering the fastest time-to-deployment by removing the need for spending time on installation and configuration.
|Web
|Active
|Live CD Hypervisor with SaaS Management System
|Free for 5 CPUs (full version)

|-
|[http://www.eucalyptus.com/ Eucalyptus]
|Eucalyptus is an open source on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud software platform that leverages existing compute, storage, and network resources to create scalable, secure enterprise-grade clouds.
|Web, CLI, REST, SOAP
|Active
|Supports KVM, Xen, and VMware
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]

|-
|[http://www.univention.de/en/products/univention-corporate-server/management-system/ UCS] / [http://www.univention.de/en/products/univention-corporate-server/ucs-komponenten/virtualization/ucs-virtual-machine-manager/ UVMM]
|UCS Virtual Machine Manager (UVMM) is a simple-to-use, high-performance management system for KVM and XEN. UVMM offers all the necessary functions for creating and administrating virtual instances and hard drives on physical servers as well as their assignment to each other. Supports among other things live-migration of virtual systems and snapshots (with KVM).
|Web, CLI
|Active
|Supports KVM and Xen, Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|Commercial, Free for personal use edition available, [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]

|-
|Plain [http://www.linux-kvm.org qemu/kvm]
|You can run qemu/kvm straight from the command line
|CLI
|Active
|See man (qemu-system-x86_64 or kvm or qemu-kvm) for more info
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://libvirt.org virsh]
|A minimal shell around libvirt for managing VMs
|CLI
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.html LGPL]

|-
|[http://virt-manager.org VMM / Virtual Machine Manager]
|Also known as virt-manager. A desktop user interface for managing virtual machines.
|Desktop
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|VMM's supporting tools [http://virt-manager.org virt-install/clone/convert]
|Command line tools for provisioning new VMs, cloning existing VMs and importing / converting appliance images.
|CLI
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.redhat.com/rhev Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization / RHEV]
|Commercial management solution for RHEL / KVM.
|Web
|Active
|
|Commercial

|-
|[http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page Proxmox VE]
|Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines
|Web, CLI
|Active
|Bar-metall installer including KVM and OpenVZ management tools
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]
|-
|[http://www.convirture.com/products_opensource.php ConVirt]
|ConVirt 2.0 Open Source is the leading open source product for managing Xen and KVM, enabling you to standardize and proactively manage your virtualized environment in a centralized fashion.
|Web
|Active
|Xen & KVM; formerly known as xenman
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://ovirt.org/ oVirt]
|oVirt is a virtualization management framework constisting of a small host image, the oVirt Node, that provides the libvirt service to host virtual machines, and a robust vm management software stack, controlled by a web-based management interface, the oVirt Server.
|Web
|Active
|uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|[http://www.op5.com/op5-features/easy-monitoring-kvm/ op5]
|op5 develops and delivers op5 Monitor a enterprise-class software for IT monitoring and administration of the whole IT. op5 developed a KVM plug-in to monitor KVM virtualization infrastructure that allows organizations to have better capacity planning, which enables the provisioning of usage of resources such as storage, CPU, and memory more proactively.
|Web, REST
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php OpenNebula]
|an open source virtual infrastructure engine
|CLI, XML-RPC
|Active
|cloud computing managment; uses libvirt
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|[http://opennode.activesys.org OpenNode]
|RHEL/CentOS based open-source server virtualization and management solution - simple bare-metal installer, providing KVM+OpenVZ host and standard libvirt, func management interfaces together with standard cli tools like virsh and vzctl. OpenNode Management Server with ajax web-based management console available - as is RPC-JSON API interface.
|Web, CLI, API
|Active
|Bare-metal installer, KVM, OpenVZ hypervizors and variety of management tools
|Unknown
|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/ Ganeti]
|Ganeti is a cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies
|CLI
|Active
|KVM support added in Ganeti 2.0
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://karesansui-project.info/ Karesansui]
|Karesansui is an open-source virtualization management application. It's smart graphical user interface lowers your management cost, and brings a total management/audit solution for both physical and virtual servers.
|Web, REST
|Active
|KVM & Xen support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html LGPL v2.1]/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.openqrm.com/ openQRM]
|openQRM is the next generation, open-source Data-center management platform.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen, VMware and Linux V-Server support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.abiquo.com/ Abiquo]
|Abiquo is a technology-agnostic solution for enterprises and service providers who want to quickly and simply build, manage and develop public and private clouds based on their existing heterogeneous environments.
|Web, REST
|Active
|KVM, Xen, VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V & XenServer support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|Commercial

|-
|[http://cloudstack.org/ CloudStack]
|Cloudstack is an open source project that enables the deployment, management, and configuration of multi-tier and multi-tenant infrastructure cloud services using Xen, KVM and VMware hypervisors.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen & VMware support
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]

|-
|[http://nimbula.com/ Nimbula Director]
|Nimbula Director is a Cloud Operating System that enables Infrastructure as a Service using the KVM.
|Web, CLI, REST
|Active
|KVM support
|Commercial (Freemium)

|-
|[http://archipelproject.org/ Archipel]
|Archipel is an Open Source project that aims to bring push notifications to virtualization orchestration using XMPP.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen, Virtual Box & OpenVZ support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]

|-
|[http://codewreck.org/kvm-wrapper kvm-wrapper]
|kvm-wrapper is a lightweight, simple and intended to be hackable set of shell scripts that help manage kvm virtual machines a great deal.
|CLI
|Active
|KVM support
|[http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ WTFPL (v2)]

|-
|[http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Kvmtools kvm-admin]
|Python scripts for managing the guests (boot, shutdown ...) and include a commandline monitor .
|CLI
|Active
|kvm support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.virtualbricks.eu/ Virtualbricks]
|Python-gtk GUI to manage guest and hybrid (host/guest) networks.
|CLI
|Active
|kvm, qemu, ksm & [http://vde.sourceforge.net/ VDE] support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.solusvm.com/ SolusVM]
|The most popular control panel for commercial use.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen & OpenVZ support
|Commercial

|-
|[http://www.stackops.org/ Stackops Openstack Distro]
|Stackops is an Openstack Nova distribution verified and tested for KVM. You only need to download the ISO image with the distro and install it on one or more servers.
|CLI, REST
|Active
|KVM & QEMU (libvirt based)
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]

|-
|[http://www.webvirtmgr.net/ WebVirtMgr]
|Web service for managing VMs based on the KVM
|WEB
|Active
|Only KVM; use libvirt
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]

|-
|[http://theforeman.org Foreman]
|Foreman is aimed to be a Single Address For All Machines Life
Cycle Management including bare metal / vm / cloud provisioning, configuration managememnt and configureation reports/auditing using puppet
|Web, REST, CLI
|Active
| KVM, VMWare, oVirt RHEV-M, EC2, OpenStack
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]

|-
|[https://launchpad.net/virtualbrick Virtualbricks]
|Python-gtk GUI to manage guest and hybrid (host/guest) networks.
|CLI
|2011-11-23
|kvm, qemu, ksm & [http://vde.sourceforge.net/ VDE] support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/aqemu/ AQemu]
|a Qt4 user interface for KVM
|Desktop
|2011-07-27
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://src.enomaly.com/ Enomaly]
|a programmable virtual cloud infrastructure for small, medium and large businesses
|Web, REST
|Not available as of 2010-02-08
|they have commercial and open source editions
|Commercial/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]

|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/kvmadm/ kvmadm]
|a minimalistic set of command-line tools to control multi-user utilization of KVM
|CLI
|2007-09-25
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://gkvm.sourceforge.net/ GKVM]
|A Gnome user interface for KVM.
|Desktop
|2007-08-01
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[https://github.com/jstimpfle/kvmupdown kvmupdown]
|simple, robust and no-bloat management interface.
|CLI
|Link broken, probably terminated project
|KVM
|public domain

|}

Management Tools

2013-10-09T21:54:26Z

Witsbits: Moved Virtualbricks to bottom of list + updated the broken product link with the source code link

There are a several options available to manage kvm virtual machines:

{|

|-
!Name/URL
!Description
!UI Type
!Active|Last Updated
!Notes
!License

|-
|[http://witsbits.com/ Witsbits]
|Witsbits enables you to set up your servers with virtualization and deploy virtual machines faster than ever before. It’s a complete virtualization solution with a self-upgrading hypervisor and cloud-based centralized management, reducing time spent on maintenance to a fraction of what other solutions require. The self-configuring hypervisor comes as a Live CD, delivering the fastest time-to-deployment by removing the need for spending time on installation and configuration.
|Web
|Active
|Live CD Hypervisor with SaaS Management System
|Subscription, Free Trials and Lifetime Accounts available

|-
|[http://www.eucalyptus.com/ Eucalyptus]
|Eucalyptus is an open source on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud software platform that leverages existing compute, storage, and network resources to create scalable, secure enterprise-grade clouds.
|Web, CLI, REST, SOAP
|Active
|Supports KVM, Xen, and VMware
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]

|-
|[http://www.univention.de/en/products/univention-corporate-server/management-system/ UCS] / [http://www.univention.de/en/products/univention-corporate-server/ucs-komponenten/virtualization/ucs-virtual-machine-manager/ UVMM]
|UCS Virtual Machine Manager (UVMM) is a simple-to-use, high-performance management system for KVM and XEN. UVMM offers all the necessary functions for creating and administrating virtual instances and hard drives on physical servers as well as their assignment to each other. Supports among other things live-migration of virtual systems and snapshots (with KVM).
|Web, CLI
|Active
|Supports KVM and Xen, Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|Commercial, Free for personal use edition available, [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]

|-
|Plain [http://www.linux-kvm.org qemu/kvm]
|You can run qemu/kvm straight from the command line
|CLI
|Active
|See man (qemu-system-x86_64 or kvm or qemu-kvm) for more info
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://libvirt.org virsh]
|A minimal shell around libvirt for managing VMs
|CLI
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.html LGPL]

|-
|[http://virt-manager.org VMM / Virtual Machine Manager]
|Also known as virt-manager. A desktop user interface for managing virtual machines.
|Desktop
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|VMM's supporting tools [http://virt-manager.org virt-install/clone/convert]
|Command line tools for provisioning new VMs, cloning existing VMs and importing / converting appliance images.
|CLI
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.redhat.com/rhev Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization / RHEV]
|Commercial management solution for RHEL / KVM.
|Web
|Active
|
|Commercial

|-
|[http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page Proxmox VE]
|Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines
|Web, CLI
|Active
|Bar-metall installer including KVM and OpenVZ management tools
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]
|-
|[http://www.convirture.com/products_opensource.php ConVirt]
|ConVirt 2.0 Open Source is the leading open source product for managing Xen and KVM, enabling you to standardize and proactively manage your virtualized environment in a centralized fashion.
|Web
|Active
|Xen & KVM; formerly known as xenman
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://ovirt.org/ oVirt]
|oVirt is a virtualization management framework constisting of a small host image, the oVirt Node, that provides the libvirt service to host virtual machines, and a robust vm management software stack, controlled by a web-based management interface, the oVirt Server.
|Web
|Active
|uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|[http://www.op5.com/op5-features/easy-monitoring-kvm/ op5]
|op5 develops and delivers op5 Monitor a enterprise-class software for IT monitoring and administration of the whole IT. op5 developed a KVM plug-in to monitor KVM virtualization infrastructure that allows organizations to have better capacity planning, which enables the provisioning of usage of resources such as storage, CPU, and memory more proactively.
|Web, REST
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php OpenNebula]
|an open source virtual infrastructure engine
|CLI, XML-RPC
|Active
|cloud computing managment; uses libvirt
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|[http://opennode.activesys.org OpenNode]
|RHEL/CentOS based open-source server virtualization and management solution - simple bare-metal installer, providing KVM+OpenVZ host and standard libvirt, func management interfaces together with standard cli tools like virsh and vzctl. OpenNode Management Server with ajax web-based management console available - as is RPC-JSON API interface.
|Web, CLI, API
|Active
|Bare-metal installer, KVM, OpenVZ hypervizors and variety of management tools
|Unknown
|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/ Ganeti]
|Ganeti is a cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies
|CLI
|Active
|KVM support added in Ganeti 2.0
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://karesansui-project.info/ Karesansui]
|Karesansui is an open-source virtualization management application. It's smart graphical user interface lowers your management cost, and brings a total management/audit solution for both physical and virtual servers.
|Web, REST
|Active
|KVM & Xen support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html LGPL v2.1]/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.openqrm.com/ openQRM]
|openQRM is the next generation, open-source Data-center management platform.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen, VMware and Linux V-Server support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.abiquo.com/ Abiquo]
|Abiquo is a technology-agnostic solution for enterprises and service providers who want to quickly and simply build, manage and develop public and private clouds based on their existing heterogeneous environments.
|Web, REST
|Active
|KVM, Xen, VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V & XenServer support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|Commercial

|-
|[http://cloudstack.org/ CloudStack]
|Cloudstack is an open source project that enables the deployment, management, and configuration of multi-tier and multi-tenant infrastructure cloud services using Xen, KVM and VMware hypervisors.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen & VMware support
|Commercial/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]

|-
|[http://nimbula.com/ Nimbula Director]
|Nimbula Director is a Cloud Operating System that enables Infrastructure as a Service using the KVM.
|Web, CLI, REST
|Active
|KVM support
|Commercial (Freemium)

|-
|[http://archipelproject.org/ Archipel]
|Archipel is an Open Source project that aims to bring push notifications to virtualization orchestration using XMPP.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen, Virtual Box & OpenVZ support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]

|-
|[http://codewreck.org/kvm-wrapper kvm-wrapper]
|kvm-wrapper is a lightweight, simple and intended to be hackable set of shell scripts that help manage kvm virtual machines a great deal.
|CLI
|Active
|KVM support
|[http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ WTFPL (v2)]

|-
|[http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Kvmtools kvm-admin]
|Python scripts for managing the guests (boot, shutdown ...) and include a commandline monitor .
|CLI
|Active
|kvm support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.virtualbricks.eu/ Virtualbricks]
|Python-gtk GUI to manage guest and hybrid (host/guest) networks.
|CLI
|Active
|kvm, qemu, ksm & [http://vde.sourceforge.net/ VDE] support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.solusvm.com/ SolusVM]
|The most popular control panel for commercial use.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen & OpenVZ support
|Commercial

|-
|[http://www.stackops.org/ Stackops Openstack Distro]
|Stackops is an Openstack Nova distribution verified and tested for KVM. You only need to download the ISO image with the distro and install it on one or more servers.
|CLI, REST
|Active
|KVM & QEMU (libvirt based)
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]

|-
|[http://www.webvirtmgr.net/ WebVirtMgr]
|Web service for managing VMs based on the KVM
|WEB
|Active
|Only KVM; use libvirt
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]

|-
|[http://theforeman.org Foreman]
|Foreman is aimed to be a Single Address For All Machines Life
Cycle Management including bare metal / vm / cloud provisioning, configuration managememnt and configureation reports/auditing using puppet
|Web, REST, CLI
|Active
| KVM, VMWare, oVirt RHEV-M, EC2, OpenStack
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]

|-
|[https://launchpad.net/virtualbrick Virtualbricks]
|Python-gtk GUI to manage guest and hybrid (host/guest) networks.
|CLI
|2011-11-23
|kvm, qemu, ksm & [http://vde.sourceforge.net/ VDE] support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/aqemu/ AQemu]
|a Qt4 user interface for KVM
|Desktop
|2011-07-27
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://src.enomaly.com/ Enomaly]
|a programmable virtual cloud infrastructure for small, medium and large businesses
|Web, REST
|Not available as of 2010-02-08
|they have commercial and open source editions
|Commercial/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]

|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/kvmadm/ kvmadm]
|a minimalistic set of command-line tools to control multi-user utilization of KVM
|CLI
|2007-09-25
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://gkvm.sourceforge.net/ GKVM]
|A Gnome user interface for KVM.
|Desktop
|2007-08-01
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[https://github.com/jstimpfle/kvmupdown kvmupdown]
|simple, robust and no-bloat management interface.
|CLI
|Link broken, probably terminated project
|KVM
|public domain

|}

Management Tools

2013-10-09T21:48:25Z

Witsbits: Moved kvmupdown to bottom of list - broken link, probably terminated project

There are a several options available to manage kvm virtual machines:

{|

|-
!Name/URL
!Description
!UI Type
!Active|Last Updated
!Notes
!License

|-
|[http://witsbits.com/ Witsbits]
|Witsbits enables you to set up your servers with virtualization and deploy virtual machines faster than ever before. It’s a complete virtualization solution with a self-upgrading hypervisor and cloud-based centralized management, reducing time spent on maintenance to a fraction of what other solutions require. The self-configuring hypervisor comes as a Live CD, delivering the fastest time-to-deployment by removing the need for spending time on installation and configuration.
|Web
|Active
|Live CD Hypervisor with SaaS Management System
|Subscription, Free Trials and Lifetime Accounts available

|-
|[http://www.eucalyptus.com/ Eucalyptus]
|Eucalyptus is an open source on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud software platform that leverages existing compute, storage, and network resources to create scalable, secure enterprise-grade clouds.
|Web, CLI, REST, SOAP
|Active
|Supports KVM, Xen, and VMware
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]

|-
|[http://www.univention.de/en/products/univention-corporate-server/management-system/ UCS] / [http://www.univention.de/en/products/univention-corporate-server/ucs-komponenten/virtualization/ucs-virtual-machine-manager/ UVMM]
|UCS Virtual Machine Manager (UVMM) is a simple-to-use, high-performance management system for KVM and XEN. UVMM offers all the necessary functions for creating and administrating virtual instances and hard drives on physical servers as well as their assignment to each other. Supports among other things live-migration of virtual systems and snapshots (with KVM).
|Web, CLI
|Active
|Supports KVM and Xen, Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|Commercial, Free for personal use edition available, [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]

|-
|Plain [http://www.linux-kvm.org qemu/kvm]
|You can run qemu/kvm straight from the command line
|CLI
|Active
|See man (qemu-system-x86_64 or kvm or qemu-kvm) for more info
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://libvirt.org virsh]
|A minimal shell around libvirt for managing VMs
|CLI
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.html LGPL]

|-
|[http://virt-manager.org VMM / Virtual Machine Manager]
|Also known as virt-manager. A desktop user interface for managing virtual machines.
|Desktop
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|VMM's supporting tools [http://virt-manager.org virt-install/clone/convert]
|Command line tools for provisioning new VMs, cloning existing VMs and importing / converting appliance images.
|CLI
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.redhat.com/rhev Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization / RHEV]
|Commercial management solution for RHEL / KVM.
|Web
|Active
|
|Commercial

|-
|[http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page Proxmox VE]
|Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines
|Web, CLI
|Active
|Bar-metall installer including KVM and OpenVZ management tools
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]
|-
|[http://www.convirture.com/products_opensource.php ConVirt]
|ConVirt 2.0 Open Source is the leading open source product for managing Xen and KVM, enabling you to standardize and proactively manage your virtualized environment in a centralized fashion.
|Web
|Active
|Xen & KVM; formerly known as xenman
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://ovirt.org/ oVirt]
|oVirt is a virtualization management framework constisting of a small host image, the oVirt Node, that provides the libvirt service to host virtual machines, and a robust vm management software stack, controlled by a web-based management interface, the oVirt Server.
|Web
|Active
|uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|[http://www.op5.com/op5-features/easy-monitoring-kvm/ op5]
|op5 develops and delivers op5 Monitor a enterprise-class software for IT monitoring and administration of the whole IT. op5 developed a KVM plug-in to monitor KVM virtualization infrastructure that allows organizations to have better capacity planning, which enables the provisioning of usage of resources such as storage, CPU, and memory more proactively.
|Web, REST
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php OpenNebula]
|an open source virtual infrastructure engine
|CLI, XML-RPC
|Active
|cloud computing managment; uses libvirt
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|[http://opennode.activesys.org OpenNode]
|RHEL/CentOS based open-source server virtualization and management solution - simple bare-metal installer, providing KVM+OpenVZ host and standard libvirt, func management interfaces together with standard cli tools like virsh and vzctl. OpenNode Management Server with ajax web-based management console available - as is RPC-JSON API interface.
|Web, CLI, API
|Active
|Bare-metal installer, KVM, OpenVZ hypervizors and variety of management tools
|Unknown
|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/ Ganeti]
|Ganeti is a cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies
|CLI
|Active
|KVM support added in Ganeti 2.0
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://karesansui-project.info/ Karesansui]
|Karesansui is an open-source virtualization management application. It's smart graphical user interface lowers your management cost, and brings a total management/audit solution for both physical and virtual servers.
|Web, REST
|Active
|KVM & Xen support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html LGPL v2.1]/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.openqrm.com/ openQRM]
|openQRM is the next generation, open-source Data-center management platform.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen, VMware and Linux V-Server support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.abiquo.com/ Abiquo]
|Abiquo is a technology-agnostic solution for enterprises and service providers who want to quickly and simply build, manage and develop public and private clouds based on their existing heterogeneous environments.
|Web, REST
|Active
|KVM, Xen, VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V & XenServer support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|Commercial

|-
|[http://cloudstack.org/ CloudStack]
|Cloudstack is an open source project that enables the deployment, management, and configuration of multi-tier and multi-tenant infrastructure cloud services using Xen, KVM and VMware hypervisors.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen & VMware support
|Commercial/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]

|-
|[http://nimbula.com/ Nimbula Director]
|Nimbula Director is a Cloud Operating System that enables Infrastructure as a Service using the KVM.
|Web, CLI, REST
|Active
|KVM support
|Commercial (Freemium)

|-
|[http://archipelproject.org/ Archipel]
|Archipel is an Open Source project that aims to bring push notifications to virtualization orchestration using XMPP.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen, Virtual Box & OpenVZ support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]

|-
|[http://codewreck.org/kvm-wrapper kvm-wrapper]
|kvm-wrapper is a lightweight, simple and intended to be hackable set of shell scripts that help manage kvm virtual machines a great deal.
|CLI
|Active
|KVM support
|[http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ WTFPL (v2)]

|-
|[http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Kvmtools kvm-admin]
|Python scripts for managing the guests (boot, shutdown ...) and include a commandline monitor .
|CLI
|Active
|kvm support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.virtualbricks.eu/ Virtualbricks]
|Python-gtk GUI to manage guest and hybrid (host/guest) networks.
|CLI
|Active
|kvm, qemu, ksm & [http://vde.sourceforge.net/ VDE] support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.solusvm.com/ SolusVM]
|The most popular control panel for commercial use.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen & OpenVZ support
|Commercial

|-
|[http://www.stackops.org/ Stackops Openstack Distro]
|Stackops is an Openstack Nova distribution verified and tested for KVM. You only need to download the ISO image with the distro and install it on one or more servers.
|CLI, REST
|Active
|KVM & QEMU (libvirt based)
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]

|-
|[http://www.webvirtmgr.net/ WebVirtMgr]
|Web service for managing VMs based on the KVM
|WEB
|Active
|Only KVM; use libvirt
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]

|-
|[http://theforeman.org Foreman]
|Foreman is aimed to be a Single Address For All Machines Life
Cycle Management including bare metal / vm / cloud provisioning, configuration managememnt and configureation reports/auditing using puppet
|Web, REST, CLI
|Active
| KVM, VMWare, oVirt RHEV-M, EC2, OpenStack
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]

|-
|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/aqemu/ AQemu]
|a Qt4 user interface for KVM
|Desktop
|2011-07-27
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://src.enomaly.com/ Enomaly]
|a programmable virtual cloud infrastructure for small, medium and large businesses
|Web, REST
|Not available as of 2010-02-08
|they have commercial and open source editions
|Commercial/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]

|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/kvmadm/ kvmadm]
|a minimalistic set of command-line tools to control multi-user utilization of KVM
|CLI
|2007-09-25
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://gkvm.sourceforge.net/ GKVM]
|A Gnome user interface for KVM.
|Desktop
|2007-08-01
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[https://github.com/jstimpfle/kvmupdown kvmupdown]
|simple, robust and no-bloat management interface.
|CLI
|Link broken, probably terminated project
|KVM
|public domain

|}

Management Tools

2013-10-09T21:43:15Z

Witsbits: Moved AQemu to the bottom of the list as it's not been updated in two years

There are a several options available to manage kvm virtual machines:

{|

|-
!Name/URL
!Description
!UI Type
!Active|Last Updated
!Notes
!License

|-
|[http://witsbits.com/ Witsbits]
|Witsbits enables you to set up your servers with virtualization and deploy virtual machines faster than ever before. It’s a complete virtualization solution with a self-upgrading hypervisor and cloud-based centralized management, reducing time spent on maintenance to a fraction of what other solutions require. The self-configuring hypervisor comes as a Live CD, delivering the fastest time-to-deployment by removing the need for spending time on installation and configuration.
|Web
|Active
|Live CD Hypervisor with SaaS Management System
|Subscription, Free Trials and Lifetime Accounts available

|-
|[http://www.eucalyptus.com/ Eucalyptus]
|Eucalyptus is an open source on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud software platform that leverages existing compute, storage, and network resources to create scalable, secure enterprise-grade clouds.
|Web, CLI, REST, SOAP
|Active
|Supports KVM, Xen, and VMware
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]

|-
|[http://www.univention.de/en/products/univention-corporate-server/management-system/ UCS] / [http://www.univention.de/en/products/univention-corporate-server/ucs-komponenten/virtualization/ucs-virtual-machine-manager/ UVMM]
|UCS Virtual Machine Manager (UVMM) is a simple-to-use, high-performance management system for KVM and XEN. UVMM offers all the necessary functions for creating and administrating virtual instances and hard drives on physical servers as well as their assignment to each other. Supports among other things live-migration of virtual systems and snapshots (with KVM).
|Web, CLI
|Active
|Supports KVM and Xen, Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|Commercial, Free for personal use edition available, [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]

|-
|Plain [http://www.linux-kvm.org qemu/kvm]
|You can run qemu/kvm straight from the command line
|CLI
|Active
|See man (qemu-system-x86_64 or kvm or qemu-kvm) for more info
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://libvirt.org virsh]
|A minimal shell around libvirt for managing VMs
|CLI
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.html LGPL]

|-
|[http://virt-manager.org VMM / Virtual Machine Manager]
|Also known as virt-manager. A desktop user interface for managing virtual machines.
|Desktop
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|VMM's supporting tools [http://virt-manager.org virt-install/clone/convert]
|Command line tools for provisioning new VMs, cloning existing VMs and importing / converting appliance images.
|CLI
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.redhat.com/rhev Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization / RHEV]
|Commercial management solution for RHEL / KVM.
|Web
|Active
|
|Commercial

|-
|[http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page Proxmox VE]
|Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines
|Web, CLI
|Active
|Bar-metall installer including KVM and OpenVZ management tools
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]
|-
|[http://www.convirture.com/products_opensource.php ConVirt]
|ConVirt 2.0 Open Source is the leading open source product for managing Xen and KVM, enabling you to standardize and proactively manage your virtualized environment in a centralized fashion.
|Web
|Active
|Xen & KVM; formerly known as xenman
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://ovirt.org/ oVirt]
|oVirt is a virtualization management framework constisting of a small host image, the oVirt Node, that provides the libvirt service to host virtual machines, and a robust vm management software stack, controlled by a web-based management interface, the oVirt Server.
|Web
|Active
|uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|[http://www.op5.com/op5-features/easy-monitoring-kvm/ op5]
|op5 develops and delivers op5 Monitor a enterprise-class software for IT monitoring and administration of the whole IT. op5 developed a KVM plug-in to monitor KVM virtualization infrastructure that allows organizations to have better capacity planning, which enables the provisioning of usage of resources such as storage, CPU, and memory more proactively.
|Web, REST
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php OpenNebula]
|an open source virtual infrastructure engine
|CLI, XML-RPC
|Active
|cloud computing managment; uses libvirt
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|[http://opennode.activesys.org OpenNode]
|RHEL/CentOS based open-source server virtualization and management solution - simple bare-metal installer, providing KVM+OpenVZ host and standard libvirt, func management interfaces together with standard cli tools like virsh and vzctl. OpenNode Management Server with ajax web-based management console available - as is RPC-JSON API interface.
|Web, CLI, API
|Active
|Bare-metal installer, KVM, OpenVZ hypervizors and variety of management tools
|Unknown
|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/ Ganeti]
|Ganeti is a cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies
|CLI
|Active
|KVM support added in Ganeti 2.0
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://karesansui-project.info/ Karesansui]
|Karesansui is an open-source virtualization management application. It's smart graphical user interface lowers your management cost, and brings a total management/audit solution for both physical and virtual servers.
|Web, REST
|Active
|KVM & Xen support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html LGPL v2.1]/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.openqrm.com/ openQRM]
|openQRM is the next generation, open-source Data-center management platform.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen, VMware and Linux V-Server support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.abiquo.com/ Abiquo]
|Abiquo is a technology-agnostic solution for enterprises and service providers who want to quickly and simply build, manage and develop public and private clouds based on their existing heterogeneous environments.
|Web, REST
|Active
|KVM, Xen, VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V & XenServer support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|Commercial

|-
|[http://cloudstack.org/ CloudStack]
|Cloudstack is an open source project that enables the deployment, management, and configuration of multi-tier and multi-tenant infrastructure cloud services using Xen, KVM and VMware hypervisors.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen & VMware support
|Commercial/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]

|-
|[http://nimbula.com/ Nimbula Director]
|Nimbula Director is a Cloud Operating System that enables Infrastructure as a Service using the KVM.
|Web, CLI, REST
|Active
|KVM support
|Commercial (Freemium)

|-
|[http://archipelproject.org/ Archipel]
|Archipel is an Open Source project that aims to bring push notifications to virtualization orchestration using XMPP.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen, Virtual Box & OpenVZ support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]

|-
|[http://codewreck.org/kvm-wrapper kvm-wrapper]
|kvm-wrapper is a lightweight, simple and intended to be hackable set of shell scripts that help manage kvm virtual machines a great deal.
|CLI
|Active
|KVM support
|[http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ WTFPL (v2)]

|-
|[https://github.com/jstimpfle/kvmupdown kvmupdown]
|simple, robust and no-bloat management interface.
|CLI
|Active
|KVM
|public domain

|-
|[http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Kvmtools kvm-admin]
|Python scripts for managing the guests (boot, shutdown ...) and include a commandline monitor .
|CLI
|Active
|kvm support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.virtualbricks.eu/ Virtualbricks]
|Python-gtk GUI to manage guest and hybrid (host/guest) networks.
|CLI
|Active
|kvm, qemu, ksm & [http://vde.sourceforge.net/ VDE] support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.solusvm.com/ SolusVM]
|The most popular control panel for commercial use.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen & OpenVZ support
|Commercial

|-
|[http://www.stackops.org/ Stackops Openstack Distro]
|Stackops is an Openstack Nova distribution verified and tested for KVM. You only need to download the ISO image with the distro and install it on one or more servers.
|CLI, REST
|Active
|KVM & QEMU (libvirt based)
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]

|-
|[http://www.webvirtmgr.net/ WebVirtMgr]
|Web service for managing VMs based on the KVM
|WEB
|Active
|Only KVM; use libvirt
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]

|-
|[http://theforeman.org Foreman]
|Foreman is aimed to be a Single Address For All Machines Life
Cycle Management including bare metal / vm / cloud provisioning, configuration managememnt and configureation reports/auditing using puppet
|Web, REST, CLI
|Active
| KVM, VMWare, oVirt RHEV-M, EC2, OpenStack
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]

|-
|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/aqemu/ AQemu]
|a Qt4 user interface for KVM
|Desktop
|2011-07-27
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://src.enomaly.com/ Enomaly]
|a programmable virtual cloud infrastructure for small, medium and large businesses
|Web, REST
|Not available as of 2010-02-08
|they have commercial and open source editions
|Commercial/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]

|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/kvmadm/ kvmadm]
|a minimalistic set of command-line tools to control multi-user utilization of KVM
|CLI
|2007-09-25
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://gkvm.sourceforge.net/ GKVM]
|A Gnome user interface for KVM.
|Desktop
|2007-08-01
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|}

Management Tools

2013-10-09T16:36:12Z

Witsbits: Updated Witsbits description and cleaned up the table to be more consistent.

There are a several options available to manage kvm virtual machines:

{|

|-
!Name/URL
!Description
!UI Type
!Active|Last Updated
!Notes
!License

|-
|[http://witsbits.com/ Witsbits]
|Witsbits enables you to set up your servers with virtualization and deploy virtual machines faster than ever before. It’s a complete virtualization solution with a self-upgrading hypervisor and cloud-based centralized management, reducing time spent on maintenance to a fraction of what other solutions require. The self-configuring hypervisor comes as a Live CD, delivering the fastest time-to-deployment by removing the need for spending time on installation and configuration.
|Web
|Active
|Live CD Hypervisor with SaaS Management System
|Subscription, Free Trials and Lifetime Accounts available

|-
|[http://www.eucalyptus.com/ Eucalyptus]
|Eucalyptus is an open source on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud software platform that leverages existing compute, storage, and network resources to create scalable, secure enterprise-grade clouds.
|Web, CLI, REST, SOAP
|Active
|Supports KVM, Xen, and VMware
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]

|-
|[http://www.univention.de/en/products/univention-corporate-server/management-system/ UCS] / [http://www.univention.de/en/products/univention-corporate-server/ucs-komponenten/virtualization/ucs-virtual-machine-manager/ UVMM]
|UCS Virtual Machine Manager (UVMM) is a simple-to-use, high-performance management system for KVM and XEN. UVMM offers all the necessary functions for creating and administrating virtual instances and hard drives on physical servers as well as their assignment to each other. Supports among other things live-migration of virtual systems and snapshots (with KVM).
|Web, CLI
|Active
|Supports KVM and Xen, Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|Commercial, Free for personal use edition available, [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]

|-
|Plain [http://www.linux-kvm.org qemu/kvm]
|You can run qemu/kvm straight from the command line
|CLI
|Active
|See man (qemu-system-x86_64 or kvm or qemu-kvm) for more info
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://libvirt.org virsh]
|A minimal shell around libvirt for managing VMs
|CLI
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.html LGPL]

|-
|[http://virt-manager.org VMM / Virtual Machine Manager]
|Also known as virt-manager. A desktop user interface for managing virtual machines.
|Desktop
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|VMM's supporting tools [http://virt-manager.org virt-install/clone/convert]
|Command line tools for provisioning new VMs, cloning existing VMs and importing / converting appliance images.
|CLI
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.redhat.com/rhev Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization / RHEV]
|Commercial management solution for RHEL / KVM.
|Web
|Active
|
|Commercial

|-
|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/aqemu/ AQemu]
|a Qt4 user interface for KVM
|Desktop
|Active
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page Proxmox VE]
|Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines
|Web, CLI
|Active
|Bar-metall installer including KVM and OpenVZ management tools
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]
|-
|[http://www.convirture.com/products_opensource.php ConVirt]
|ConVirt 2.0 Open Source is the leading open source product for managing Xen and KVM, enabling you to standardize and proactively manage your virtualized environment in a centralized fashion.
|Web
|Active
|Xen & KVM; formerly known as xenman
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://ovirt.org/ oVirt]
|oVirt is a virtualization management framework constisting of a small host image, the oVirt Node, that provides the libvirt service to host virtual machines, and a robust vm management software stack, controlled by a web-based management interface, the oVirt Server.
|Web
|Active
|uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|[http://www.op5.com/op5-features/easy-monitoring-kvm/ op5]
|op5 develops and delivers op5 Monitor a enterprise-class software for IT monitoring and administration of the whole IT. op5 developed a KVM plug-in to monitor KVM virtualization infrastructure that allows organizations to have better capacity planning, which enables the provisioning of usage of resources such as storage, CPU, and memory more proactively.
|Web, REST
|Active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php OpenNebula]
|an open source virtual infrastructure engine
|CLI, XML-RPC
|Active
|cloud computing managment; uses libvirt
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|[http://opennode.activesys.org OpenNode]
|RHEL/CentOS based open-source server virtualization and management solution - simple bare-metal installer, providing KVM+OpenVZ host and standard libvirt, func management interfaces together with standard cli tools like virsh and vzctl. OpenNode Management Server with ajax web-based management console available - as is RPC-JSON API interface.
|Web, CLI, API
|Active
|Bare-metal installer, KVM, OpenVZ hypervizors and variety of management tools
|Unknown
|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/ Ganeti]
|Ganeti is a cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies
|CLI
|Active
|KVM support added in Ganeti 2.0
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://karesansui-project.info/ Karesansui]
|Karesansui is an open-source virtualization management application. It's smart graphical user interface lowers your management cost, and brings a total management/audit solution for both physical and virtual servers.
|Web, REST
|Active
|KVM & Xen support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html LGPL v2.1]/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.openqrm.com/ openQRM]
|openQRM is the next generation, open-source Data-center management platform.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen, VMware and Linux V-Server support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.abiquo.com/ Abiquo]
|Abiquo is a technology-agnostic solution for enterprises and service providers who want to quickly and simply build, manage and develop public and private clouds based on their existing heterogeneous environments.
|Web, REST
|Active
|KVM, Xen, VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V & XenServer support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|Commercial

|-
|[http://cloudstack.org/ CloudStack]
|Cloudstack is an open source project that enables the deployment, management, and configuration of multi-tier and multi-tenant infrastructure cloud services using Xen, KVM and VMware hypervisors.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen & VMware support
|Commercial/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]

|-
|[http://nimbula.com/ Nimbula Director]
|Nimbula Director is a Cloud Operating System that enables Infrastructure as a Service using the KVM.
|Web, CLI, REST
|Active
|KVM support
|Commercial (Freemium)

|-
|[http://archipelproject.org/ Archipel]
|Archipel is an Open Source project that aims to bring push notifications to virtualization orchestration using XMPP.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen, Virtual Box & OpenVZ support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]

|-
|[http://codewreck.org/kvm-wrapper kvm-wrapper]
|kvm-wrapper is a lightweight, simple and intended to be hackable set of shell scripts that help manage kvm virtual machines a great deal.
|CLI
|Active
|KVM support
|[http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ WTFPL (v2)]

|-
|[https://github.com/jstimpfle/kvmupdown kvmupdown]
|simple, robust and no-bloat management interface.
|CLI
|Active
|KVM
|public domain

|-
|[http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Kvmtools kvm-admin]
|Python scripts for managing the guests (boot, shutdown ...) and include a commandline monitor .
|CLI
|Active
|kvm support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.virtualbricks.eu/ Virtualbricks]
|Python-gtk GUI to manage guest and hybrid (host/guest) networks.
|CLI
|Active
|kvm, qemu, ksm & [http://vde.sourceforge.net/ VDE] support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://www.solusvm.com/ SolusVM]
|The most popular control panel for commercial use.
|Web
|Active
|KVM, Xen & OpenVZ support
|Commercial

|-
|[http://www.stackops.org/ Stackops Openstack Distro]
|Stackops is an Openstack Nova distribution verified and tested for KVM. You only need to download the ISO image with the distro and install it on one or more servers.
|CLI, REST
|Active
|KVM & QEMU (libvirt based)
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]

|-
|[http://www.webvirtmgr.net/ WebVirtMgr]
|Web service for managing VMs based on the KVM
|WEB
|Active
|Only KVM; use libvirt
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]

|-
|[http://theforeman.org Foreman]
|Foreman is aimed to be a Single Address For All Machines Life
Cycle Management including bare metal / vm / cloud provisioning, configuration managememnt and configureation reports/auditing using puppet
|Web, REST, CLI
|Active
| KVM, VMWare, oVirt RHEV-M, EC2, OpenStack
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]

|-
|[http://src.enomaly.com/ Enomaly]
|a programmable virtual cloud infrastructure for small, medium and large businesses
|Web, REST
|Not available as of 2010-02-08
|they have commercial and open source editions
|Commercial/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]

|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/kvmadm/ kvmadm]
|a minimalistic set of command-line tools to control multi-user utilization of KVM
|CLI
|2007-09-25
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[http://gkvm.sourceforge.net/ GKVM]
|A Gnome user interface for KVM.
|Desktop
|2007-08-01
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|}

Management Tools

2012-07-24T16:47:29Z

Witsbits: Updated Witsbits

There are a several options available to manage kvm virtual machines:

{|
|-
!Name/URL
!Description
!UI Type
!Active|Last Updated
!Notes
!License
|-
|[http://www.eucalyptus.com/ Eucalyptus]
|Eucalyptus is an open source on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud software platform that leverages existing compute, storage, and network resources to create scalable, secure enterprise-grade clouds.
|Web, CLI, REST & SOAP APIs
|active
|Supports KVM, Xen, and VMware
|Commercial/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]
|-
|[http://www.univention.de/en/products/univention-corporate-server/management-system/ UCS] / [http://www.univention.de/en/products/univention-corporate-server/ucs-komponenten/virtualization/ucs-virtual-machine-manager/ UVMM]
|UCS Virtual Machine Manager (UVMM) is a simple-to-use, high-performance management system for KVM and XEN. UVMM offers all the necessary functions for creating and administrating virtual instances and hard drives on physical servers as well as their assignment to each other. Supports among other things live-migration of virtual systems and snapshots (with KVM).
|Web-based, CLI
|active
|Supports KVM and Xen, Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|Commercial, Free for personal use edition available, [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]
|-
|Plain [http://www.linux-kvm.org qemu/kvm]
|You can run qemu/kvm straight from the command line
|CLI
|active
|See man (qemu-system-x86_64 or kvm or qemu-kvm) for more info
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://libvirt.org virsh]
|A minimal shell around libvirt for managing VMs
|CLI
|active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.html LGPL]
|-
|[http://virt-manager.org VMM / Virtual Machine Manager]
|Also known as virt-manager. A desktop user interface for managing virtual machines.
|Desktop
|active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|VMM's supporting tools [http://virt-manager.org virt-install/clone/convert]
|Command line tools for provisioning new VMs, cloning existing VMs and importing / converting appliance images.
|CLI
|active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://www.redhat.com/rhev Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization / RHEV]
|Commercial management solution for RHEL / KVM.
|Web-based
|active
|
|Commercial

|-
|[http://witsbits.com/ Witsbits]
|Witsbits enables you to set up your servers for virtualization and deploy virtual machines faster than ever before. Witsbits is a complete end-to-end solution including both hypervisor and management system with console and a library of preconfigured virtual server templates. The technology is a combination of a web service and a boot loader that requires no software installation to get your bare-metal servers ready to host virtual machines.
|Web-based
|active
|Hypervisor and Hosted Management System, no software installation.
|Free for unlimited use, commercial or personal

|-
|[http://gkvm.sourceforge.net/ GKVM]
|A Gnome user interface for KVM.
|Desktop
|2007-08-01
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/aqemu/ AQemu]
|a Qt4 user interface for KVM
|desktop
|active
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/kvmadm/ kvmadm]
|a minimalistic set of command-line tools to control multi-user utilization of KVM
|cli
|2007-09-25
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page Proxmox VE]
|Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines
|web & cli
|active
|Bar-metall installer including KVM and OpenVZ management tools
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]
|-
|[http://www.convirture.com/community.html ConVirt]
|ConVirt 2.0 Open Source is the leading open source product for managing Xen and KVM, enabling you to standardize and proactively manage your virtualized environment in a centralized fashion.
|web-based
|active
|Xen & KVM; formerly known as xenman
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://ovirt.org/ oVirt]
|oVirt is a virtualization management framework constisting of a small host image, the oVirt Node, that provides the libvirt service to host virtual machines, and a robust vm management software stack, controlled by a web-based management interface, the oVirt Server.
|web
|active
|uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|[http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php OpenNebula]
|an open source virtual infrastructure engine
|cli & xml-rpc
|active
|cloud computing managment; uses libvirt
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|[http://opennode.activesys.org OpenNode]
|RHEL/CentOS based open-source server virtualization and management solution - simple bare-metal installer, providing KVM+OpenVZ host and standard libvirt, func management interfaces together with standard cli tools like virsh and vzctl. OpenNode Management Server with ajax web-based management console available - as is RPC-JSON API interface.
|web & cli & api
|active
|Bare-metal installer, KVM, OpenVZ hypervizors and variety of management tools
|Unknown
|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/ Ganeti]
|Ganeti is a cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies
|cli
|active
|KVM support added in Ganeti 2.0
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://src.enomaly.com/ Enomaly]
|a programmable virtual cloud infrastructure for small, medium and large businesses
|web & REST API
|* not available as of at Feb. 8, 2010
|they have commercial and open source editions
|Commercial/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]
|-
|[http://karesansui-project.info/ Karesansui]
|Karesansui is an open-source virtualization management application. It's smart graphical user interface lowers your management cost, and brings a total management/audit solution for both physical and virtual servers.
|web & REST API
|active
|KVM & Xen support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html LGPL v2.1]/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://www.openqrm.com/ openQRM]
|openQRM is the next generation, open-source Data-center management platform.
|web
|active
|KVM, Xen, VMware and Linux V-Server support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://www.abiquo.com/ Abiquo]
|Abiquo is an open source infrastructure software for the creation and integral management of Public & Private Clouds based on heterogeneous environments.
|web
|active
|KVM, Xen & Virtual Box support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|Commercial
|-
|[http://cloudstack.org/ CloudStack]
|Cloudstack is an open source project that enables the deployment, management, and configuration of multi-tier and multi-tenant infrastructure cloud services using Xen, KVM and VMware hypervisors.
|web
|active
|KVM, Xen & VMware support
|Commercial/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]
|-
|[http://nimbula.com/ Nimbula Director]
|Nimbula Director is a Cloud Operating System that enables Infrastructure as a Service using the KVM.
|Web, CLI, and REST API
|active
|KVM support
|Commercial (Freemium)
|-
|[http://archipelproject.org/ Archipel]
|Archipel is an Open Source project that aims to bring push notifications to virtualization orchestration using XMPP.
|web
|active
|KVM, Xen, Virtual Box & OpenVZ support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]
|-
|[http://codewreck.org/kvm-wrapper kvm-wrapper]
|kvm-wrapper is a lightweight, simple and intended to be hackable set of shell scripts that help manage kvm virtual machines a great deal.
|cli
|active
|KVM support
|[http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ WTFPL (v2)]
|-
|[http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Kvmtools kvm-admin]
|Python scripts for managing the guests (boot, shutdown ...) and include a commandline monitor .
|cli
|active
|kvm support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://www.virtualbricks.eu/ Virtualbricks]
|Python-gtk GUI to manage guest and hybrid (host/guest) networks.
|cli
|active
|kvm, qemu, ksm & [http://vde.sourceforge.net/ VDE] support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://www.solusvm.com/ SolusVM]
|The most popular control panel for commercial use.
|Web
|active
|KVM, Xen & OpenVZ support
|Commercial
|-
|[http://www.stackops.org/ Stackops Openstack Distro]
|Stackops is an Openstack Nova distribution verified and tested for KVM. You only need to download the ISO image with the distro and install it on one or more servers.
|cli and REST APIs
|active
|KVM & QEMU (libvirt based)
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|[http://www.webvirtmgr.net/ WebVirtMgr]
|Web service for managing VMs based on the KVM
|WEB
|active
|Only KVM; use libvirt
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|}

Management Tools

2012-06-15T13:45:45Z

Witsbits:

There are a several options available to manage kvm virtual machines:

{|
|-
!Name/URL
!Description
!UI Type
!Active|Last Updated
!Notes
!License
|-
|[http://www.eucalyptus.com/ Eucalyptus]
|Eucalyptus is an open source on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud software platform that leverages existing compute, storage, and network resources to create scalable, secure enterprise-grade clouds.
|Web, CLI, REST & SOAP APIs
|active
|Supports KVM, Xen, and VMware
|Commercial/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]
|-
|[http://www.univention.de/en/products/univention-corporate-server/management-system/ UCS] / [http://www.univention.de/en/products/univention-corporate-server/ucs-komponenten/virtualization/ucs-virtual-machine-manager/ UVMM]
|Univention Virtual Machine Manager is a high-performance management system for KVM and XEN.
|Web-based
|active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|Commercial, Free for personal use edition available
|-
|Plain [http://www.linux-kvm.org qemu/kvm]
|You can run qemu/kvm straight from the command line
|CLI
|active
|See man (qemu-system-x86_64 or kvm or qemu-kvm) for more info
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://libvirt.org virsh]
|A minimal shell around libvirt for managing VMs
|CLI
|active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.html LGPL]
|-
|[http://virt-manager.org VMM / Virtual Machine Manager]
|Also known as virt-manager. A desktop user interface for managing virtual machines.
|Desktop
|active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|VMM's supporting tools [http://virt-manager.org virt-install/clone/convert]
|Command line tools for provisioning new VMs, cloning existing VMs and importing / converting appliance images.
|CLI
|active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://www.redhat.com/rhev Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization / RHEV]
|Commercial management solution for RHEL / KVM.
|Web-based
|active
|
|Commercial

|-
|[http://witsbits.com/ Witsbits]
|Witsbits enables you to set up your servers for virtualization and deploy virtual machines faster than ever before. Witsbits is a complete end-to-end solution including both hypervisor and management system with console and virtual server templates. The technology is a combination of a web service and a boot loader that requires not software installation to get your bare-metal servers ready to host virtual machines.
|Web-based
|active
|Hypervisor and Hosted Management System, no software installation.
|Free for unlimited use, commercial or personal

|-
|[http://gkvm.sourceforge.net/ GKVM]
|A Gnome user interface for KVM.
|Desktop
|2007-08-01
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]

|-
|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/aqemu/ AQemu]
|a Qt4 user interface for KVM
|desktop
|active
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/kvmadm/ kvmadm]
|a minimalistic set of command-line tools to control multi-user utilization of KVM
|cli
|2007-09-25
|
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page Proxmox VE]
|Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines
|web & cli
|active
|Bar-metall installer including KVM and OpenVZ management tools
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]
|-
|[http://www.convirture.com/community.html ConVirt]
|ConVirt 2.0 Open Source is the leading open source product for managing Xen and KVM, enabling you to standardize and proactively manage your virtualized environment in a centralized fashion.
|web-based
|active
|Xen & KVM; formerly known as xenman
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://ovirt.org/ oVirt]
|oVirt is a virtualization management framework constisting of a small host image, the oVirt Node, that provides the libvirt service to host virtual machines, and a robust vm management software stack, controlled by a web-based management interface, the oVirt Server.
|web
|active
|uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|[http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php OpenNebula]
|an open source virtual infrastructure engine
|cli & xml-rpc
|active
|cloud computing managment; uses libvirt
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|[http://opennode.activesys.org OpenNode]
|RHEL/CentOS based open-source server virtualization and management solution - simple bare-metal installer, providing KVM+OpenVZ host and standard libvirt, func management interfaces together with standard cli tools like virsh and vzctl. OpenNode Management Server with ajax web-based management console available - as is RPC-JSON API interface.
|web & cli & api
|active
|Bare-metal installer, KVM, OpenVZ hypervizors and variety of management tools
|Unknown
|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/ Ganeti]
|Ganeti is a cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies
|cli
|active
|KVM support added in Ganeti 2.0
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://src.enomaly.com/ Enomaly]
|a programmable virtual cloud infrastructure for small, medium and large businesses
|web & REST API
|* not available as of at Feb. 8, 2010
|they have commercial and open source editions
|Commercial/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]
|-
|[http://karesansui-project.info/ Karesansui]
|Karesansui is an open-source virtualization management application. It's smart graphical user interface lowers your management cost, and brings a total management/audit solution for both physical and virtual servers.
|web & REST API
|active
|KVM & Xen support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html LGPL v2.1]/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://www.openqrm.com/ openQRM]
|openQRM is the next generation, open-source Data-center management platform.
|web
|active
|KVM, Xen, VMware and Linux V-Server support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://www.abiquo.com/ Abiquo]
|Abiquo is an open source infrastructure software for the creation and integral management of Public & Private Clouds based on heterogeneous environments.
|web
|active
|KVM, Xen & Virtual Box support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|Commercial
|-
|[http://cloudstack.org/ CloudStack]
|Cloudstack is an open source project that enables the deployment, management, and configuration of multi-tier and multi-tenant infrastructure cloud services using Xen, KVM and VMware hypervisors.
|web
|active
|KVM, Xen & VMware support
|Commercial/[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPL v3]
|-
|[http://nimbula.com/ Nimbula Director]
|Nimbula Director is a Cloud Operating System that enables Infrastructure as a Service using the KVM.
|Web, CLI, and REST API
|active
|KVM support
|Commercial (Freemium)
|-
|[http://archipelproject.org/ Archipel]
|Archipel is an Open Source project that aims to bring push notifications to virtualization orchestration using XMPP.
|web
|active
|KVM, Xen, Virtual Box & OpenVZ support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html AGPL v3]
|-
|[http://codewreck.org/kvm-wrapper kvm-wrapper]
|kvm-wrapper is a lightweight, simple and intended to be hackable set of shell scripts that help manage kvm virtual machines a great deal.
|cli
|active
|KVM support
|[http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ WTFPL (v2)]
|-
|[http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Kvmtools kvm-admin]
|Python scripts for managing the guests (boot, shutdown ...) and include a commandline monitor .
|cli
|active
|kvm support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://www.virtualbricks.eu/ Virtualbricks]
|Python-gtk GUI to manage guest and hybrid (host/guest) networks.
|cli
|active
|kvm, qemu, ksm & [http://vde.sourceforge.net/ VDE] support
|[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL v2]
|-
|[http://www.solusvm.com/ SolusVM]
|The most popular control panel for commercial use.
|Web
|active
|KVM, Xen & OpenVZ support
|Commercial
|-
|[http://www.stackops.org/ Stackops Openstack Distro]
|Stackops is an Openstack Nova distribution verified and tested for KVM. You only need to download the ISO image with the distro and install it on one or more servers.
|cli and REST APIs
|active
|KVM & QEMU (libvirt based)
|[http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html Apache License v2]
|-
|[http://www.webvirtmgr.net/ WebVirtMgr]
|Web service for managing VMs based on the KVM
|WEB
|active
|Only KVM; use libvirt
|Free for personal use
|-
|}

Management Tools

2011-10-14T09:35:22Z

Witsbits:

There are a several options available to manage kvm virtual machines:

{|
|-
!Name/URL
!Description
!UI Type
!Active|Last Updated
!Notes
|-
|[http://www.univention.de/produkte/ucs/ucs-komponenten/virtualisierung/univention-virtual-machine-manager/ UVMM]
|Univention Virtual Machine Manager is a high-performance administration service for KVM and XEN.
|web
|active
|Uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|-
|[http://www.linux-kvm.org Plain old qemu/kvm]
|You can run qemu/kvm straight from the command line
|cli
|active
|See man (qemu-system-x86_64 or kvm or qemu-kvm) for more info
|-
|[http://libvirt.org virsh]
|A minimal shell around libvirt for managing VMs
|cli
|active
|uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|-
|[http://virt-manager.org virt-install/clone/convert]
|Command line tools for provisioning new VMs, cloning existing VMs and importing / converting appliance images
|cli
|active
|uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|-
|[http://virt-manager.org Virtual Machine Manager]
|Also known as virt-manager. A desktop user interface for managing virtual machines
|desktop
|active
|uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|-
|[http://www.redhat.com/rhev Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization]
|Commercial management solution for RHEL / KVM
|web
|active
|
|-
|[http://www.witsbits.com/ Witsbits]
|Free KVM Virtualization Management delivered as a cloud service.
|web & REST API
|active
|
|-
|[http://gkvm.sourceforge.net/ GKVM]
|a gnome user interface for KVM
|desktop
|2007-08-01
|
|-
|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/aqemu/ AQemu]
|a Qt4 user interface for KVM
|desktop
|active
|
|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/kvmadm/ kvmadm]
|a minimalistic set of command-line tools to control multi-user utilization of KVM
|cli
|2007-09-25
|
|-
|[http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page Proxmox VE]
|Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines
|web & cli
|active
|Bar-metall installer including KVM and OpenVZ management tools
|-
|[http://www.convirture.com/community.html ConVirt]
|ConVirt 2.0 Open Source is the leading open source product for managing Xen and KVM, enabling you to standardize and proactively manage your virtualized environment in a centralized fashion.
|web-based
|active
|Xen & KVM; formerly known as xenman
|-
|[http://ovirt.org/ oVirt]
|oVirt is a virtualization management framework constisting of a small host image, the oVirt Node, that provides the libvirt service to host virtual machines, and a robust vm management software stack, controlled by a web-based management interface, the oVirt Server.
|web
|active
|uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|-
|[http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php OpenNebula]
|an open source virtual infrastructure engine
|cli & xml-rpc
|active
|cloud computing managment; uses libvirt
|-
|[http://opennode.activesys.org OpenNode]
|RHEL/CentOS based open-source server virtualization and management solution - simple bare-metal installer, providing KVM+OpenVZ host and standard libvirt, func management interfaces together with standard cli tools like virsh and vzctl. OpenNode Management Server with ajax web-based management console available - as is RPC-JSON API interface.
|web & cli & api
|active
|Bare-metal installer, KVM, OpenVZ hypervizors and variety of management tools
|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/ Ganeti]
|Ganeti is a cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies
|cli
|active
|KVM support added in Ganeti 2.0
|-
|[http://src.enomaly.com/ Enomaly]
|a programmable virtual cloud infrastructure for small, medium and large businesses
|web & REST API
|* not available as of at Feb. 8, 2010
|they have commercial and open source editions
|-
|[http://karesansui-project.info/ Karesansui]
|Karesansui is an open-source virtualization management application. It's smart graphical user interface lowers your management cost, and brings a total management/audit solution for both physical and virtual servers.
|web & REST API
|active
|KVM & Xen support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|-
|[http://www.openqrm.com/ openQRM]
|openQRM is the next generation, open-source Data-center management platform.
|web
|active
|KVM, Xen, VMware and Linux V-Server support
|-
|[http://www.abiquo.com/ Abiquo]
|Abiquo is an open source infrastructure software for the creation and integral management of Public & Private Clouds based on heterogeneous environments.
|web
|active
|KVM, Xen & Virtual Box support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|-
|[http://cloud.com/main/products/cloudstack-2.0-platform CloudStack]
|Cloudstack is an open source project that enables the deployment, management, and configuration of multi-tier and multi-tenant infrastructure cloud services using Xen, KVM and VMware hypervisors.
|web
|active
|KVM, Xen & VMware support
|-
|[http://nimbula.com/ Nimbula Director]
|Nimbula Director is a Cloud Operating System that enables Infrastructure as a Service using the KVM.
|Web, CLI, and REST API
|active
|KVM support
|-
|[http://archipelproject.org/ Archipel]
|Archipel is an Open Source project that aims to bring push notifications to virtualization orchestration using XMPP.
|web
|active
|KVM, Xen, Virtual Box & OpenVZ support; uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt]
|-
|[http://codewreck.org/kvm-wrapper kvm-wrapper]
|kvm-wrapper is a lightweight, simple and intended to be hackable set of shell scripts that help manage kvm virtual machines a great deal.
|cli
|active
|KVM support
|-
|[http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Kvmtools kvm-admin]
|Python scripts for managing the guests (boot, shutdown ...) and include a commandline monitor .
|cli
|active
|kvm support
|-
|[http://www.virtualbricks.eu/ Virtualbricks]
|Python-gtk GUI to manage guest and hybrid (host/guest) networks.
|cli
|active
|kvm, qemu, ksm & [http://vde.sourceforge.net/ VDE] support
|-
|[http://www.solusvm.com/ SolusVM]
|The most popular control panel for commercial use.
|Web
|active
|KVM, Xen & OpenVZ support
|-
|[http://www.stackops.org/ Stackops Openstack Distro]
|Stackops is an Openstack Nova distribution verified and tested for KVM. You only need to download the ISO image with the distro and install it on one or more servers.
|cli and REST APIs
|active
|KVM & QEMU (libvirt based)
|-
|}