Management Tools
From KVM
There are a several options available to manage kvm virtual machines:
| Name/URL | Description | UI Type | Last Updated | Notes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mist.io | Mist.io is an all-in-one solution that helps you manage your entire infrastructure from a single UI and API. Whether you’re using multiple public or private clouds, KVM hypervisors, Docker containers or bare metal servers, you can manage and monitor them from one central place using a responsive, touch-friendly interface. You can install the open-source version or try the freemium service. VM management is free while monitoring requires a subscription. | Web, Mobile, REST API, CLI | Active | Uses libvirt and libcloud for VM management. Supports KVM, several public cloud providers, OpenStack, Docker and bare metal servers. | AGPL v3 for the open source version, Commercial for the service |
| Platform9 Managed OpenStack | Platform9 makes it very easy to manage a KVM environment with resource pooling and automation. Platform9 Managed OpenStack is a SaaS solution that easily integrates with any new or existing servers running KVM. The OpenStack powered service supports major Linux distributions. See the demo for KVM. | UI, OpenStack CLI, OpenStack API | Active | Works well with existing environments. See Getting Started With Platform9. | Commercial |
| nbsvm | No Bullshit VMs. No setup required. No dependencies but sudo, and LVM or ZFS. Start, stop, create and clone images and view VMs using simple chained commands. Basically applies sane (overridden by cli or file) defaults to the kvm invocation and gets out of the way. Sudo invocation is designed to allow user access controls. | CLI | February 2014 | WTFPL 2 | |
| 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) |
| Eucalyptus | Eucalyptus is open source software for building AWS-compatible private and hybrid clouds. Eucalyptus allows IT organizations to build an on-premises Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud that pools together compute, storage, and network resources. With Eucalyptus, developers can leverage knowledge and tools around AWS APIs, including EC2, S3, EBS, IAM, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, and CloudWatch. IT can create a flexible hybrid cloud environment so that developers can develop sooner, test more, and deploy faster while giving IT and cloud admins greater control of cloud performance, scale, and security. | Web, CLI, REST, SOAP | Active | Supports KVM and VMware. Uses libvirt. View the Eucalyptus Compatibility Matrix: http://bit.ly/QfH4Iv | GPL v3 |
| UVMM | UCS Virtual Machine Manager (UVMM) is an easy-to-use and powerful administration tool for KVM. It virtualizes Microsoft Windows, Univention Corporate Server and other Linux distributions by providing all the necessary functions for creating and managing virtual instances (also OpenStack and Amazon EC2-based resources) and hard drives on physical servers centrally via a web-based modern interface. It is included in Univention Corporate Server by default, an Enterprise Linux distribution with an integrated management system. | Web, CLI | Active | Supports KVM, Uses libvirt | Commercial, Free for personal use edition available, AGPL v3 |
| Plain 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 | GPL v2 |
| virsh | A minimal shell around libvirt for managing VMs | CLI | Active | Uses libvirt | LGPL |
| VMM / Virtual Machine Manager | Also known as virt-manager. A desktop user interface for managing virtual machines. | Desktop | Active | Uses libvirt | GPL v2 |
| VMM's supporting tools virt-install/clone/convert | Command line tools for provisioning new VMs, cloning existing VMs and importing / converting appliance images. | CLI | Active | Uses libvirt | GPL v2 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization / RHEV | Commercial management solution for RHEL / KVM. | Web | Active | Commercial | |
| VMmanager | Software solution for virtualization management that can be used both for hosting virtual machines and building a cloud. With VMmanager you can manage not only one server, but a large cluster of hypervisors. It delivers a number of functions, such as live migration that allows for load balancing between cluster nodes, monitoring CPU, memory and I/O operation enabling to detect problematic nodes, use of local and networks storages, and many tools for efficient management. | Web, CLI, REST | Active | KVM, uses libvirt | Commercial |
| 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 | AGPL v3 |
| 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 | GPL v2 |
| 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 libvirt | Apache License v2 |
| 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 libvirt | GPL v2 |
| OpenNebula | an open source virtual infrastructure engine | CLI, XML-RPC | Active | cloud computing managment; uses libvirt | Apache License v2 |
| 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 |
| 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 | GPL v2 |
| 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 libvirt | LGPL v2.1/GPL v2 |
| openQRM | openQRM is the next generation, open-source Data-center management platform. | Web | Active | KVM, Xen, VMware and Linux V-Server support | GPL v2 |
| 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 libvirt | Commercial |
| 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 | Apache License v2 |
| 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) |
| 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 libvirt | AGPL v3 |
| 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 | WTFPL (v2) |
| kvm-admin | Python scripts for managing the guests (boot, shutdown ...) and include a commandline monitor . | CLI | Active | kvm support | GPL v2 |
| SolusVM | The most popular control panel for commercial use. | Web | Active | KVM, Xen & OpenVZ support | Commercial |
| 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) | Apache License v2 |
| WebVirtMgr | Web service for managing VMs based on the KVM | WEB | Active | Only KVM; use libvirt | Apache License v2 |
| 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 | GPL v3 |
| Virtualbricks | Python-gtk GUI to manage guest and hybrid (host/guest) networks. | CLI | 2011-11-23 | kvm, qemu, ksm & VDE support | GPL v2 |
| AQemu | a Qt4 user interface for KVM | Desktop | 2013-05-30 | GPL v2 | |
| 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/AGPL v3 |
| kvmadm | a minimalistic set of command-line tools to control multi-user utilization of KVM | CLI | 2007-09-25 | GPL v2 | |
| GKVM | A Gnome user interface for KVM. | Desktop | 2007-08-01 | GPL v2 | |
| kvmupdown | simple, robust and no-bloat management interface. | CLI | Link broken, probably terminated project | KVM | public domain |
| kimchi | Kimchi is an HTML5 based management tool for KVM. It is designed to make it
as easy as possible to get started with KVM and create your first guest. |
WEB | Active | KVM | LGPL,Apache License v2
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| cloonix | cloonix is a virtualization management framework aimed at virtual networks building based on kvm. | Gui/cli | Active | KVM | RPL Licence
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| vmmaestro | vmmaestro is a tiny shell script which can start/stop/monitor KVM guests. | CLI | Active | KVM | MIT License |
| VM-King | VM-King is an Android App that allows you to manage your hypervisior remotely from your Android mobile or tablet. This app supports the following functions: Start/stop/destroy VM, restore and delete snapshots, get screenshot of running VMs, get remote display connection information (VNC/Spice). | mobile, tablet | Active | KVM | free |