Virt-manager operating system and list of applications

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Virt-manager with icons

For legal reasons it’s not so easy to include trademarked icons in virt-manager.

Here’s what the latest (patched) virt-manager looks like with those icons:

Inspection in virt-manager #4

Listing the installed applications in virt-manager:

Inspection in virt-manager #3

This is how it looks when the OS inspection icons are added to the main VM list:

Inspection in virt-manager #2

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Inspection in virt-manager

Using a background thread, inspect the virt-manager VMs and (just for a quick example) add the hostname to the user interface. I’m hoping in future that we can do things like changing those boring generic computer icons into operating system logos, displaying disk usage, and lots more.

Patch

virt-tools.org: Starting and stopping VMs with virt-manager

Our guide to starting and stopping virtual machines using virt-manager. It’s actually a little bit more subtle than you might think.

virt-tools.org: Guide to installing a VM with virt-manager

Read our quick guide to installing a virtual machine using virt-manager.

Announcing: The virt-tools.org website

http://virt-tools.org/

Virt Tools are open source virtualization management tools for Linux system administrators. The virt tools site provides tutorials, videos, documentation, online help and roadmaps to help you get started with and understand the tools.

This is an umbrella project that I’ve been organizing for a couple of months. It doesn’t replace the upstream projects, but it provides somewhere we can supply cross-tool support — you want to edit a VM with guestfish, start it with libvirt, and view the console with virt-viewer: where does that documentation go?

The site is open source too. You can download the source from the git repository.

Thanks to: Andy Cathrow, Justin Clift, Dan Berrange.