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<h1>Applications using <strong>libvirt</strong></h1>
<p>
This page provides an illustration of the wide variety of
applications using the libvirt management API.
</p>
<ul id="toc"></ul>
<h2><a name="add">Add an application</a></h2>
<p>
To add an application not listed on this page, send a message
to the <a href="contact.html">mailing list</a>, requesting it
be added here. If your application uses libvirt as its API,
the following graphic is available for your website to advertise
support for libvirt:
</p>
<p class="image">
<img src="madeWith.png" alt="Made with libvirt"/>
</p>
<h2><a name="clientserver">Client/Server applications</a></h2>
<dl>
<dt><a href="http://archipelproject.org">Archipel</a></dt>
<dd>
Archipel is a libvirt-based solution to manage and supervise virtual
machines. It uses XMPP for all communication. There is no web
service or custom protocol. You just need at least one XMPP server,
like eJabberd, to start playing with it. This allows Archipel to
work completely real time. You never have to refresh the user
interface, you'll be notified as soon as something happens. You can
even use your favorite chat clients to command your infrastructure.
</dd>
<dd>
Isn't it great to be able to open a chat conversation with your
virtual machine and say things like "How are you today?" or "Hey,
please reboot"?
</dd>
</dl>
<h2><a name="command">Command line tools</a></h2>
<dl>
<dt><a href="http://libguestfs.org">guestfish</a></dt>
<dd>
Guestfish is an interactive shell and command-line tool for examining
and modifying virtual machine filesystems. It uses libvirt to find
guests and their associated disks.
</dd>
<dt>virsh</dt>
<dd>
An interactive shell, and batch scriptable tool for performing
management tasks on all libvirt managed domains, networks and
storage. This is part of the libvirt core distribution.
</dd>
<dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-clone</a></dt>
<dd>
Allows the disk image(s) and configuration for an existing
virtual machine to be cloned to form a new virtual machine.
It automates copying of data across to new disk images, and
updates the UUID, MAC address, and name in the configuration.
</dd>
<dt><a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/">virt-df</a></dt>
<dd>
Examine the utilization of each filesystem in a virtual machine
from the comfort of the host machine. This tool peeks into the
guest disks and determines how much space is used. It can cope
with common Linux filesystems and LVM volumes.
</dd>
<dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-image</a></dt>
<dd>
Provides a way to deploy virtual appliances. It defines a
simplified portable XML format describing the pre-requisites
of a virtual machine. At time of deployment this is translated
into the domain XML format for execution under any libvirt
hypervisor meeting the pre-requisites.
</dd>
<dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-install</a></dt>
<dd>
Provides a way to provision new virtual machines from a
OS distribution install tree. It supports provisioning from
local CD images, and the network over NFS, HTTP and FTP.
</dd>
<dt><a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/">virt-top</a></dt>
<dd>
Watch the CPU, memory, network and disk utilization of all
virtual machines running on a host.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2><a name="desktop">Desktop applications</a></h2>
<dl>
<dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-manager</a></dt>
<dd>
A general purpose desktop management tool, able to manage
virtual machines across both local and remotely accessed
hypervisors. It is targeted at home and small office usage
upto managing 10-20 hosts and their VMs.
</dd>
<dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-viewer</a></dt>
<dd>
A lightweight tool for accessing the graphical console
associated with a virtual machine. It can securely connect
to remote consoles supporting the VNC protocol. Also provides
an optional mozilla browser plugin.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2><a name="libraries">Libraries</a></h2>
<dl>
<dt><a href="http://libguestfs.org">libguestfs</a></dt>
<dd>
A library and set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual
machine disk images. It can be linked with C and C++ management
programs, and has bindings for Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, OCaml,
PHP, Haskell, and C#.
</dd>
<dd>
Using its FUSE module, you can also mount guest filesystems on the
host, and there is a subproject to allow merging changes into the
Windows Registry in Windows guests.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2><a name="livecd">LiveCD / Appliances</a></h2>
<dl>
<dt><a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/">virt-p2v</a></dt>
<dd>
A tool for converting a physical machine into a virtual machine. It
is a LiveCD which is booted on the machine to be converted. It collects
a little information from the user, then copies the disks over to
a remote machine and defines the XML for a domain to run the guest.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2><a name="monitoring">Monitoring plugins</a></h2>
<dl>
<dt><a href="http://collectd.org/plugins/libvirt.shtml">for collectd</a></dt>
<dd>
The libvirt-plugin is part of <a href="http://collectd.org/">collectd</a>
and gathers statistics about virtualized guests on a system. This
way, you can collect CPU, network interface and block device usage
for each guest without installing collectd on the guest systems.
For a full description, please refer to the libvirt section in the
collectd.conf(5) manual page.
</dd>
<dt><a href="http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/libvirt/#munin">for munin</a></dt>
<dd>
The plugins provided by Guido Günther allow to monitor various things
like network and block I/O with
<a href="http://munin.projects.linpro.no/">Munin</a>.
</dd>
<dt><a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/nagios-virt/">nagios-virt</a></dt>
<dd>
Nagios-virt is a configuration tool to add monitoring of your
virtualised domains to <a href="http://www.nagios.org/">Nagios</a>.
You can use this tool to either set up a new Nagios installation for
your Xen or QEMU/KVM guests, or to integrate with your existing Nagios
installation.
</dd>
</dl>
<h2><a name="web">Web applications</a></h2>
<dl>
<dt><a href="http://community.abiquo.com/display/AbiCloud">AbiCloud</a></dt>
<dd>
AbiCloud is an open source cloud platform manager which allows to
easily deploy a private cloud in your datacenter. One of the key
differences of AbiCloud is the web rich interface for managing the
infrastructure. You can deploy a new service just dragging and
dropping a VM.
</dd>
<dt><a href="http://ovirt.org/">oVirt</a></dt>
<dd>
oVirt provides the ability to manage large numbers of virtual
machines across an entire data center of hosts. It integrates
with FreeIPA for Kerberos authentication, and in the future,
certificate management.
</dd>
</dl>
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