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   5     <h1>Applications using libvirt</h1>
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   7     <p>
   8       This page provides an illustration of the wide variety of
   9       applications using the libvirt management API.
  10     </p>
  11
  12     <ul id="toc"></ul>
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  14     <h2><a id="add">Add an application</a></h2>
  15
  16     <p>
  17       To add an application not listed on this page, send a message
  18       to the <a href="contact.html">mailing list</a>, requesting it
  19       be added here, or simply send a patch against the documentation
  20       in the libvirt.git docs subdirectory.
  21       If your application uses libvirt as its API,
  22       the following graphics are available for your website to advertise
  23       support for libvirt:
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  32
  33     <h2><a id="command">Command line tools</a></h2>
  34
  35     <dl>
  36       <dt><a href="http://libguestfs.org">guestfish</a></dt>
  37       <dd>
  38         Guestfish is an interactive shell and command-line tool for examining
  39         and modifying virtual machine filesystems.  It uses libvirt to find
  40         guests and their associated disks.
  41       </dd>
  42       <dt>virsh</dt>
  43       <dd>
  44         An interactive shell, and batch scriptable tool for performing
  45         management tasks on all libvirt managed domains, networks and
  46         storage. This is part of the libvirt core distribution.
  47       </dd>
  48       <dt><a href="https://virt-manager.org/">virt-clone</a></dt>
  49       <dd>
  50         Allows the disk image(s) and configuration for an existing
  51         virtual machine to be cloned to form a new virtual machine.
  52         It automates copying of data across to new disk images, and
  53         updates the UUID, MAC address, and name in the configuration.
  54       </dd>
  55       <dt><a href="https://people.redhat.com/rjones/virt-df/">virt-df</a></dt>
  56       <dd>
  57         Examine the utilization of each filesystem in a virtual machine
  58         from the comfort of the host machine. This tool peeks into the
  59         guest disks and determines how much space is used. It can cope
  60         with common Linux filesystems and LVM volumes.
  61       </dd>
  62       <dt><a href="https://virt-manager.org/">virt-image</a></dt>
  63       <dd>
  64         Provides a way to deploy virtual appliances. It defines a
  65         simplified portable XML format describing the pre-requisites
  66         of a virtual machine. At time of deployment this is translated
  67         into the domain XML format for execution under any libvirt
  68         hypervisor meeting the pre-requisites.
  69       </dd>
  70       <dt><a href="https://virt-manager.org/">virt-install</a></dt>
  71       <dd>
  72         Provides a way to provision new virtual machines from a
  73         OS distribution install tree. It supports provisioning from
  74         local CD images, and the network over NFS, HTTP and FTP.
  75       </dd>
  76       <dt><a href="https://people.redhat.com/rjones/virt-top/">virt-top</a></dt>
  77       <dd>
  78         Watch the CPU, memory, network and disk utilization of all
  79         virtual machines running on a host.
  80       </dd>
  81       <dt>
  82         <a href="https://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what/">virt-what</a>
  83       </dt>
  84       <dd>
  85         virt-what is a shell script for detecting if the program is running
  86         in a virtual machine.  It prints out a list of facts about the
  87         virtual machine, derived from heuristics.
  88       </dd>
  89       <dt><a href="https://sourceware.org/systemtap/">stap</a></dt>
  90       <dd>
  91         SystemTap is a tool used to gather rich information about a running
  92         system through the use of scripts. Starting from v2.4, the front-end
  93         application stap can use libvirt to gather data within virtual
  94         machines.
  95       </dd>
  96       <dt><a href="https://github.com/pradels/vagrant-libvirt/">vagrant-libvirt</a></dt>
  97       <dd>
  98         Vagrant-Libvirt is a Vagrant plugin that uses libvirt to manage virtual
  99         machines. It is a command line tool for developers that makes it very
 100         fast and easy to deploy and re-deploy an environment of vm's.
 101       </dd>
 102       <dt><a href="https://github.com/virt-lightning/virt-lightning">virt-lightning</a></dt>
 103       <dd>
 104         Virt-Lightning uses libvirt, cloud-init and libguestfs to allow anyone
 105         to quickly start a new VM. Very much like a container CLI, but with a
 106         virtual machine.
 107       </dd>
 108     </dl>
 109
 110     <h2><a id="configmgmt">Configuration Management</a></h2>
 111
 112     <dl>
 113       <dt><a href="https://wiki.lcfg.org/bin/view/LCFG/LcfgLibvirt">LCFG</a></dt>
 114       <dd>
 115         LCFG is a system for automatically installing and managing the
 116         configuration of large numbers of Unix systems.  It is particularly
 117         suitable for sites with very diverse and rapidly changing
 118         configurations.
 119       </dd>
 120       <dd>
 121         The lcfg-libvirt package adds support for virtualized systems to
 122         LCFG, with both Xen and KVM known to work.  Cloning guests is
 123         supported, as are the bridged, routed, and isolated modes for
 124         Virtual Networking.
 125       </dd>
 126     </dl>
 127
 128     <h2><a id="continuousintegration">Continuous Integration</a></h2>
 129
 130     <dl>
 131       <dt><a href="http://docs.buildbot.net/latest/manual/configuration/workers-libvirt.html">BuildBot</a></dt>
 132       <dd>
 133         BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required
 134         by most software projects.  CVS commits trigger new builds, run on
 135         a variety of client machines.  Build status (pass/fail/etc) are
 136         displayed on a web page or through other protocols.
 137       </dd>
 138     </dl>
 139
 140     <dl>
 141       <dt><a href="https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Libvirt+Slaves+Plugin">Jenkins</a></dt>
 142       <dd>
 143         This plugin for Jenkins adds a way to control guest domains hosted
 144         on Xen or QEMU/KVM.  You configure a Jenkins Slave,
 145         selecting the guest domain and hypervisor.  When you need to build a
 146         job on a specific Slave, its guest domain is started, then the job is
 147         run.  When the build process is finished, the guest domain is shut
 148         down, ready to be used again as required.
 149       </dd>
 150     </dl>
 151
 152     <h2><a id="conversion">Conversion</a></h2>
 153
 154     <dl>
 155       <dt><a href="http://libguestfs.org/virt-p2v.1.html">virt-p2v</a></dt>
 156       <dd>
 157         Convert a physical machine to run on KVM.  It is a LiveCD
 158         which is booted on the machine to be converted.  It collects a
 159         little information from the user, then copies the disks over
 160         to a remote machine and defines the XML for a domain to run
 161         the guest.  (Note this tool is included with libguestfs)
 162       </dd>
 163       <dt><a href="http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html">virt-v2v</a></dt>
 164       <dd>
 165         virt-v2v converts guests from a foreign hypervisor to run on
 166         KVM, managed by libvirt.  It can convert guests from VMware or
 167         Xen to run on OpenStack, oVirt (RHEV-M), or local libvirt.  It
 168         will enable VirtIO drivers in the converted guest if possible.
 169         (Note this tool is included with libguestfs)
 170       </dd>
 171       <dd>
 172         For RHEL customers of Red Hat, conversion of Windows guests is also
 173         possible.  This conversion requires some Microsoft signed pieces,
 174         that Red Hat can provide.
 175       </dd>
 176       <dt><a href="https://launchpad.net/virt-goodies">vmware2libvirt</a></dt>
 177       <dd>
 178         Part of the <i>virt-goodies</i> package, vmware2libvirt is a python
 179         script for migrating a vmware image to libvirt.
 180       </dd>
 181     </dl>
 182
 183     <h2><a id="desktop">Desktop applications</a></h2>
 184
 185     <dl>
 186       <dt><a href="https://virt-manager.org/">virt-manager</a></dt>
 187       <dd>
 188         A general purpose desktop management tool, able to manage
 189         virtual machines across both local and remotely accessed
 190         hypervisors. It is targeted at home and small office usage
 191         up to managing 10-20 hosts and their VMs.
 192       </dd>
 193       <dt><a href="https://virt-manager.org/">virt-viewer</a></dt>
 194       <dd>
 195         A lightweight tool for accessing the graphical console
 196         associated with a virtual machine. It can securely connect
 197         to remote consoles supporting the VNC protocol. Also provides
 198         an optional mozilla browser plugin.
 199       </dd>
 200       <dt><a href="https://f1ash.github.io/qt-virt-manager">qt-virt-manager</a></dt>
 201       <dd>
 202         The Qt GUI for create and control VMs and another virtual entities
 203         (aka networks, storages, interfaces, secrets, network filters).
 204         Contains integrated LXC/SPICE/VNC viewer for accessing the graphical or
 205         text console associated with a virtual machine or container.
 206       </dd>
 207       <dt><a href="https://f1ash.github.io/qt-virt-manager/#virtual-machines-viewer">qt-remote-viewer</a></dt>
 208       <dd>
 209         The Qt VNC/SPICE viewer for access to remote desktops or VMs.
 210       </dd>
 211     </dl>
 212
 213     <h2><a id="iaas">Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)</a></h2>
 214
 215     <dl>
 216       <dt><a href="http://cc1.ifj.edu.pl">Cracow Cloud One</a></dt>
 217       <dd>The CC1 system provides a complete solution for Private
 218         Cloud Computing. An intuitive web access interface with an
 219         administration module and simple installation procedure make
 220         it easy to benefit from private Cloud Computing technology.
 221       </dd>
 222
 223       <dt><a href="https://github.com/eucalyptus/eucalyptus">Eucalyptus</a></dt>
 224       <dd>
 225         Eucalyptus is an on-premise Infrastructure as a Service cloud
 226         software platform that is open source and
 227         AWS-compatible. Eucalyptus uses libivrt virtualization API to
 228         directly interact with Xen and KVM hypervisors.
 229       </dd>
 230
 231       <dt><a href="http://www.nimbusproject.org">Nimbus</a></dt>
 232       <dd>
 233         Nimbus is an open-source toolkit focused on providing
 234         Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) capabilities to the scientific
 235         community.  It uses libvirt for communication with all KVM and Xen
 236         virtual machines.
 237       </dd>
 238
 239       <dt><a href="http://snooze.inria.fr">Snooze</a></dt>
 240       <dd>
 241         Snooze is an open-source scalable, autonomic, and energy-efficient
 242         virtual machine (VM) management framework for private clouds. It
 243         integrates libvirt for VM monitoring, live migration, and life-cycle
 244         management.
 245       </dd>
 246
 247       <dt><a href="https://www.openstack.org">OpenStack</a></dt>
 248       <dd>
 249         OpenStack is a "cloud operating system" usable for both public
 250         and private clouds.  Its various parts take care of compute,
 251         storage and networking resources and interface with the user
 252         using a dashboard.  Compute part uses libvirt to manage VM
 253         life-cycle, monitoring and so on.
 254       </dd>
 255
 256       <dt><a href="https://github.com/gustavfranssonnyvell/cherrypop">Cherrypop</a></dt>
 257       <dd>
 258         A cloud software with no masters or central points. Nodes
 259         autodetect other nodes and autodistribute virtual
 260         machines and autodivide up the workload. Also there is no
 261         minimum limit for hosts, well, one might be nice. It's
 262         perfect for setting up low-end servers in a cloud or a
 263         cloud where you want the most bang for the bucks.
 264       </dd>
 265
 266       <dt><a href="http://en.zstack.io/">ZStack</a></dt>
 267       <dd>
 268         ZStack is an open source IaaS software that aims to automate the
 269         management of all resources (compute, storage, networking, etc.) in a
 270         datacenter by using APIs, thus conforming to the principles of a
 271         software-defined datacenter. The key strengths of ZStack in terms of
 272         management are scalability, performance, and a fast, user-friendly
 273         deployment.
 274       </dd>
 275     </dl>
 276
 277     <h2><a id="libraries">Libraries</a></h2>
 278
 279     <dl>
 280       <dt><a href="http://libguestfs.org">libguestfs</a></dt>
 281       <dd>
 282         A library and set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual
 283         machine disk images.  It can be linked with C and C++ management
 284         programs, and has bindings for Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, OCaml,
 285         PHP, Haskell, and C#.
 286       </dd>
 287       <dd>
 288         Using its FUSE module, you can also mount guest filesystems on the
 289         host, and there is a subproject to allow merging changes into the
 290         Windows Registry in Windows guests.
 291       </dd>
 292
 293       <dt><a href="https://sandbox.libvirt.org">libvirt-sandbox</a></dt>
 294       <dd>
 295         A library and command line tools for simplifying the creation of
 296         application sandboxes using virtualization technology. It currently
 297         supports either KVM, QEMU or LXC as backends. Integration with
 298         systemd facilitates sandboxing of system services like apache.
 299       </dd>
 300       <dt><a href="https://github.com/ohadlevy/virt#readme">Ruby
 301           Libvirt Object bindings</a></dt>
 302       <dd>
 303         Allows using simple ruby objects to manipulate
 304         hypervisors, guests, storage, network etc.  It is
 305         based on top of
 306         the <a href="https://libvirt.org/ruby">native ruby bindings</a>.
 307       </dd>
 308     </dl>
 309
 310     <h2><a id="livecd">LiveCD / Appliances</a></h2>
 311
 312     <dl>
 313       <dt><a href="http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v/">virt-p2v</a></dt>
 314       <dd>
 315         An older tool for converting a physical machine into a virtual
 316         machine.  It is a LiveCD which is booted on the machine to be
 317         converted.  It collects a little information from the user, then
 318         copies the disks over to a remote machine and defines the XML for a
 319         domain to run the guest.
 320       </dd>
 321     </dl>
 322
 323     <h2><a id="monitoring">Monitoring</a></h2>
 324     <dl>
 325       <dt><a href="https://collectd.org/plugins/libvirt.shtml">collectd</a></dt>
 326       <dd>
 327         The libvirt-plugin is part of <a href="http://collectd.org/">collectd</a>
 328         and gathers statistics about virtualized guests on a system. This
 329         way, you can collect CPU, network interface and block device usage
 330         for each guest without installing collectd on the guest systems.
 331         For a full description, please refer to the libvirt section in the
 332         collectd.conf(5) manual page.
 333       </dd>
 334       <dt><a href="http://www.sflow.net/">Host sFlow</a></dt>
 335       <dd>
 336         Host sFlow is a lightweight agent running on KVM hypervisors that
 337         links to libvirt library and exports standardized cpu, memory, network
 338         and disk metrics for all virtual machines.
 339       </dd>
 340       <dt><a href="https://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/libvirt/#munin">Munin</a></dt>
 341       <dd>
 342         The plugins provided by Guido Günther allow to monitor various things
 343         like network and block I/O with
 344         <a href="http://munin.projects.linpro.no/">Munin</a>.
 345       </dd>
 346       <dt><a href="http://people.redhat.com/rjones/nagios-virt/">Nagios-virt</a></dt>
 347       <dd>
 348         Nagios-virt is a configuration tool to add monitoring of your
 349         virtualised domains to <a href="http://www.nagios.org/">Nagios</a>.
 350         You can use this tool to either set up a new Nagios installation for
 351         your Xen or QEMU/KVM guests, or to integrate with your existing Nagios
 352         installation.
 353       </dd>
 354       <dt><a href="http://www.pcp.io/man/man1/pmdalibvirt.1.html">PCP</a></dt>
 355       <dd>
 356         The PCP libvirt PMDA (plugin) is part of the
 357         <a href="http://pcp.io/">PCP</a> toolkit and provides
 358         hypervisor and guest information and complete set of guest performance
 359         metrics. It supports pCPU, vCPU, memory, block device, network interface,
 360         and performance event metrics for each virtual guest.
 361       </dd>
 362     </dl>
 363
 364     <h2><a id="provisioning">Provisioning</a></h2>
 365
 366     <dl>
 367       <dt><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli+Provisioning+Manager">Tivoli Provisioning Manager</a></dt>
 368       <dd>
 369         Part of the IBM Tivoli family, Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM) is
 370         an IT lifecycle automation product.  It
 371         <a href="http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v38r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.tivoli.tpm.apk.doc/libvirt_package.html">uses libvirt</a>
 372         for communication with virtualization hosts and guest domains.
 373       </dd>
 374     </dl>
 375
 376     <dl>
 377       <dt><a href="https://theforeman.org">Foreman</a></dt>
 378       <dd>
 379       Foreman is an open source web based application aimed to be a
 380       Single Address For All Machines Life Cycle Management. Foreman:
 381
 382       <ul>
 383           <li>Creates everything you need when adding a new machine to
 384           your network, its goal being automatically managing
 385           everything you would normally manage manually (DNS, DHCP,
 386           TFTP, Virtual Machines,CA, CMDB...)</li>
 387           <li>Integrates with Puppet (and acts as web front end to it).</li>
 388           <li>Takes care of provisioning until the point puppet is
 389           running, allowing Puppet to do what it does best.</li>
 390           <li>Shows you Systems Inventory (based on Facter) and
 391           provides real time information about hosts status based on
 392           Puppet reports.</li>
 393       </ul>
 394       </dd>
 395     </dl>
 396
 397
 398     <h2><a id="web">Web applications</a></h2>
 399
 400     <dl>
 401       <dt><a href="http://www.abiquo.com/">AbiCloud</a></dt>
 402       <dd>
 403         AbiCloud is an open source cloud platform manager which allows to
 404         easily deploy a private cloud in your datacenter. One of the key
 405         differences of AbiCloud is the web rich interface for managing the
 406         infrastructure. You can deploy a new service just dragging and
 407         dropping a VM.
 408       </dd>
 409       <dt><a href="https://kimchi-project.github.io/kimchi/">Kimchi</a></dt>
 410       <dd>
 411         Kimchi is an HTML5 based management tool for KVM. It is designed to
 412         make it as easy as possible to get started with KVM and create your first guest.
 413
 414         Kimchi manages KVM guests through libvirt. The management interface is accessed
 415         over the web using a browser that supports HTML5.
 416       </dd>
 417       <dt><a href="https://ovirt.org/">oVirt</a></dt>
 418       <dd>
 419         oVirt provides the ability to manage large numbers of virtual
 420         machines across an entire data center of hosts. It integrates
 421         with FreeIPA for Kerberos authentication, and in the future,
 422         certificate management.
 423       </dd>
 424       <dt><a href="https://ispsystem.com/en/software/vmmanager">VMmanager</a></dt>
 425       <dd>
 426         VMmanager is a software solution for virtualization management
 427         that can be used both for hosting virtual machines and
 428         building a cloud.  VMmanager can manage not only one server,
 429         but a large cluster of hypervisors.  It delivers a number of
 430         functions, such as live migration that allows for load
 431         balancing between cluster nodes, monitoring CPU, memory.
 432       </dd>
 433       <dt><a href="https://mist.io/">mist.io</a></dt>
 434       <dd>
 435         Mist.io is an open source project and a service that can assist you in
 436         managing your virtual machines on a unified way, providing a simple
 437         interface for all of your infrastructure (multiple public cloud
 438         providers, OpenStack based public/private clouds, Docker servers, bare
 439         metal servers and now KVM hypervisors).
 440       </dd>
 441       <dt><a href="https://ravada.upc.edu/">Ravada</a></dt>
 442       <dd>
 443         Ravada is an open source tool for managing Virtual Desktop
 444         Infrastructure (VDI). It is very easy to install and use. Following
 445         the documentation, you'll be ready to deploy virtual machines in
 446         minutes. The only requirements for the users are a Web browser and
 447         a lightweight remote viewer.
 448       </dd>
 449       <dt><a href="https://github.com/cutelyst/Virtlyst">Virtlyst</a></dt>
 450       <dd>
 451         Virtlyst is an open source web application built with C++11, Cutelyst and Qt.
 452         It features:
 453         <ul>
 454           <li>Low memory usage (around 5 MiB of RAM)</li>
 455           <li>Look and feel easily customized with HTML templates that use the Django syntax</li>
 456           <li>VNC/Spice console directly in the browser using websockets on the same HTTP port</li>
 457           <li>Host and Domain statistics graphs (CPU, Memory, IO, Network)</li>
 458           <li>Connect to multiple libvirtd instances (over local Unix domain socket, SSH, TCP and TLS)</li>
 459           <li>Manage Storage Pools, Storage Volumes, Networks, Interfaces, and Secrets</li>
 460           <li>Create and launch VMs</li>
 461           <li>Configure VMs with easy panels or go pro and edit the VM's XML</li>
 462         </ul>
 463       </dd>
 464     </dl>
 465
 466     <h2><a id="other">Other</a></h2>
 467
 468     <dl>
 469       <dt><a href="https://cuckoosandbox.org/">Cuckoo Sandbox</a></dt>
 470       <dd>
 471         Cuckoo Sandbox is a malware analysis system.  You can throw
 472         any suspicious file at it and in a matter of seconds Cuckoo
 473         will provide you back some detailed results outlining what
 474         such file did when executed inside an isolated environment.
 475         And libvirt is one of the backends that can be used for the
 476         isolated environment.
 477       </dd>
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