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    <h1>Applications using libvirt</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 id="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, or simply send a patch against the documentation
      in the libvirt.git docs subdirectory.
      If your application uses libvirt as its API,
      the following graphics are available for your website to advertise
      support for libvirt:
    </p>

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    <h2><a id="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="https://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="https://people.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="https://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="https://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="https://people.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>
      <dt>
        <a href="https://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what/">virt-what</a>
      </dt>
      <dd>
        virt-what is a shell script for detecting if the program is running
        in a virtual machine.  It prints out a list of facts about the
        virtual machine, derived from heuristics.
      </dd>
      <dt><a href="https://sourceware.org/systemtap/">stap</a></dt>
      <dd>
        SystemTap is a tool used to gather rich information about a running
        system through the use of scripts. Starting from v2.4, the front-end
        application stap can use libvirt to gather data within virtual
        machines.
      </dd>
      <dt><a href="https://github.com/pradels/vagrant-libvirt/">vagrant-libvirt</a></dt>
      <dd>
        Vagrant-Libvirt is a Vagrant plugin that uses libvirt to manage virtual
        machines. It is a command line tool for developers that makes it very
        fast and easy to deploy and re-deploy an environment of vm's.
      </dd>
      <dt><a href="https://github.com/virt-lightning/virt-lightning">virt-lightning</a></dt>
      <dd>
        Virt-Lightning uses libvirt, cloud-init and libguestfs to allow anyone
        to quickly start a new VM. Very much like a container CLI, but with a
        virtual machine.
      </dd>
    </dl>

    <h2><a id="configmgmt">Configuration Management</a></h2>

    <dl>
      <dt><a href="https://wiki.lcfg.org/bin/view/LCFG/LcfgLibvirt">LCFG</a></dt>
      <dd>
        LCFG is a system for automatically installing and managing the
        configuration of large numbers of Unix systems.  It is particularly
        suitable for sites with very diverse and rapidly changing
        configurations.
      </dd>
      <dd>
        The lcfg-libvirt package adds support for virtualized systems to
        LCFG, with both Xen and KVM known to work.  Cloning guests is
        supported, as are the bridged, routed, and isolated modes for
        Virtual Networking.
      </dd>
    </dl>

    <h2><a id="continuousintegration">Continuous Integration</a></h2>

    <dl>
      <dt><a href="http://docs.buildbot.net/latest/manual/configuration/workers-libvirt.html">BuildBot</a></dt>
      <dd>
        BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required
        by most software projects.  CVS commits trigger new builds, run on
        a variety of client machines.  Build status (pass/fail/etc) are
        displayed on a web page or through other protocols.
      </dd>
    </dl>

    <dl>
      <dt><a href="https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Libvirt+Slaves+Plugin">Jenkins</a></dt>
      <dd>
        This plugin for Jenkins adds a way to control guest domains hosted
        on Xen or QEMU/KVM.  You configure a Jenkins Slave,
        selecting the guest domain and hypervisor.  When you need to build a
        job on a specific Slave, its guest domain is started, then the job is
        run.  When the build process is finished, the guest domain is shut
        down, ready to be used again as required.
      </dd>
    </dl>

    <h2><a id="conversion">Conversion</a></h2>

    <dl>
      <dt><a href="http://libguestfs.org/virt-p2v.1.html">virt-p2v</a></dt>
      <dd>
        Convert a physical machine to run on KVM.  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.  (Note this tool is included with libguestfs)
      </dd>
      <dt><a href="http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html">virt-v2v</a></dt>
      <dd>
        virt-v2v converts guests from a foreign hypervisor to run on
        KVM, managed by libvirt.  It can convert guests from VMware or
        Xen to run on OpenStack, oVirt (RHEV-M), or local libvirt.  It
        will enable VirtIO drivers in the converted guest if possible.
        (Note this tool is included with libguestfs)
      </dd>
      <dd>
        For RHEL customers of Red Hat, conversion of Windows guests is also
        possible.  This conversion requires some Microsoft signed pieces,
        that Red Hat can provide.
      </dd>
      <dt><a href="https://launchpad.net/virt-goodies">vmware2libvirt</a></dt>
      <dd>
        Part of the <i>virt-goodies</i> package, vmware2libvirt is a python
        script for migrating a vmware image to libvirt.
      </dd>
    </dl>

    <h2><a id="desktop">Desktop applications</a></h2>

    <dl>
      <dt><a href="https://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
        up to managing 10-20 hosts and their VMs.
      </dd>
      <dt><a href="https://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>
      <dt><a href="https://f1ash.github.io/qt-virt-manager">qt-virt-manager</a></dt>
      <dd>
        The Qt GUI for create and control VMs and another virtual entities
        (aka networks, storages, interfaces, secrets, network filters).
        Contains integrated LXC/SPICE/VNC viewer for accessing the graphical or
        text console associated with a virtual machine or container.
      </dd>
      <dt><a href="https://f1ash.github.io/qt-virt-manager/#virtual-machines-viewer">qt-remote-viewer</a></dt>
      <dd>
        The Qt VNC/SPICE viewer for access to remote desktops or VMs.
      </dd>
    </dl>

    <h2><a id="iaas">Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)</a></h2>

    <dl>
      <dt><a href="http://cc1.ifj.edu.pl">Cracow Cloud One</a></dt>
      <dd>The CC1 system provides a complete solution for Private
        Cloud Computing. An intuitive web access interface with an
        administration module and simple installation procedure make
        it easy to benefit from private Cloud Computing technology.
      </dd>

      <dt><a href="https://github.com/eucalyptus/eucalyptus">Eucalyptus</a></dt>
      <dd>
        Eucalyptus is an on-premise Infrastructure as a Service cloud
        software platform that is open source and
        AWS-compatible. Eucalyptus uses libvirt virtualization API to
        directly interact with Xen and KVM hypervisors.
      </dd>

      <dt><a href="http://www.nimbusproject.org">Nimbus</a></dt>
      <dd>
        Nimbus is an open-source toolkit focused on providing
        Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) capabilities to the scientific
        community.  It uses libvirt for communication with all KVM and Xen
        virtual machines.
      </dd>

      <dt><a href="http://snooze.inria.fr">Snooze</a></dt>
      <dd>
        Snooze is an open-source scalable, autonomic, and energy-efficient
        virtual machine (VM) management framework for private clouds. It
        integrates libvirt for VM monitoring, live migration, and life-cycle
        management.
      </dd>

      <dt><a href="https://www.openstack.org">OpenStack</a></dt>
      <dd>
        OpenStack is a "cloud operating system" usable for both public
        and private clouds.  Its various parts take care of compute,
        storage and networking resources and interface with the user
        using a dashboard.  Compute part uses libvirt to manage VM
        life-cycle, monitoring and so on.
      </dd>

      <dt><a href="https://github.com/gustavfranssonnyvell/cherrypop">Cherrypop</a></dt>
      <dd>
        A cloud software with no masters or central points. Nodes
        autodetect other nodes and autodistribute virtual
        machines and autodivide up the workload. Also there is no
        minimum limit for hosts, well, one might be nice. It's
        perfect for setting up low-end servers in a cloud or a
        cloud where you want the most bang for the bucks.
      </dd>

      <dt><a href="http://en.zstack.io/">ZStack</a></dt>
      <dd>
        ZStack is an open source IaaS software that aims to automate the
        management of all resources (compute, storage, networking, etc.) in a
        datacenter by using APIs, thus conforming to the principles of a
        software-defined datacenter. The key strengths of ZStack in terms of
        management are scalability, performance, and a fast, user-friendly
        deployment.
      </dd>
    </dl>

    <h2><a id="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>

      <dt><a href="https://sandbox.libvirt.org">libvirt-sandbox</a></dt>
      <dd>
        A library and command line tools for simplifying the creation of
        application sandboxes using virtualization technology. It currently
        supports either KVM, QEMU or LXC as backends. Integration with
        systemd facilitates sandboxing of system services like apache.
      </dd>
      <dt><a href="https://github.com/ohadlevy/virt#readme">Ruby
          Libvirt Object bindings</a></dt>
      <dd>
        Allows using simple ruby objects to manipulate
        hypervisors, guests, storage, network etc.  It is
        based on top of
        the <a href="https://libvirt.org/ruby">native ruby bindings</a>.
      </dd>
    </dl>

    <h2><a id="livecd">LiveCD / Appliances</a></h2>

    <dl>
      <dt><a href="http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v/">virt-p2v</a></dt>
      <dd>
        An older 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 id="monitoring">Monitoring</a></h2>
    <dl>
      <dt><a href="https://collectd.org/plugins/libvirt.shtml">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://www.sflow.net/">Host sFlow</a></dt>
      <dd>
        Host sFlow is a lightweight agent running on KVM hypervisors that
        links to libvirt library and exports standardized cpu, memory, network
        and disk metrics for all virtual machines.
      </dd>
      <dt><a href="https://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/libvirt/#munin">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://people.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>
      <dt><a href="http://www.pcp.io/man/man1/pmdalibvirt.1.html">PCP</a></dt>
      <dd>
        The PCP libvirt PMDA (plugin) is part of the
        <a href="http://pcp.io/">PCP</a> toolkit and provides
        hypervisor and guest information and complete set of guest performance
        metrics. It supports pCPU, vCPU, memory, block device, network interface,
        and performance event metrics for each virtual guest.
      </dd>
    </dl>

    <h2><a id="provisioning">Provisioning</a></h2>

    <dl>
      <dt><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli+Provisioning+Manager">Tivoli Provisioning Manager</a></dt>
      <dd>
        Part of the IBM Tivoli family, Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM) is
        an IT lifecycle automation product.  It
        <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>
        for communication with virtualization hosts and guest domains.
      </dd>
    </dl>

    <dl>
      <dt><a href="https://theforeman.org">Foreman</a></dt>
      <dd>
      Foreman is an open source web based application aimed to be a
      Single Address For All Machines Life Cycle Management. Foreman:

      <ul>
          <li>Creates everything you need when adding a new machine to
          your network, its goal being automatically managing
          everything you would normally manage manually (DNS, DHCP,
          TFTP, Virtual Machines,CA, CMDB...)</li>
          <li>Integrates with Puppet (and acts as web front end to it).</li>
          <li>Takes care of provisioning until the point puppet is
          running, allowing Puppet to do what it does best.</li>
          <li>Shows you Systems Inventory (based on Facter) and
          provides real time information about hosts status based on
          Puppet reports.</li>
      </ul>
      </dd>
    </dl>


    <h2><a id="web">Web applications</a></h2>

    <dl>
      <dt><a href="http://www.abiquo.com/">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="https://kimchi-project.github.io/kimchi/">Kimchi</a></dt>
      <dd>
        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.

        Kimchi manages KVM guests through libvirt. The management interface is accessed
        over the web using a browser that supports HTML5.
      </dd>
      <dt><a href="https://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>
      <dt><a href="https://ispsystem.com/en/software/vmmanager">VMmanager</a></dt>
      <dd>
        VMmanager is a software solution for virtualization management
        that can be used both for hosting virtual machines and
        building a cloud.  VMmanager 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.
      </dd>
      <dt><a href="https://mist.io/">mist.io</a></dt>
      <dd>
        Mist.io is an open source project and a service that can assist you in
        managing your virtual machines on a unified way, providing a simple
        interface for all of your infrastructure (multiple public cloud
        providers, OpenStack based public/private clouds, Docker servers, bare
        metal servers and now KVM hypervisors).
      </dd>
      <dt><a href="https://ravada.upc.edu/">Ravada</a></dt>
      <dd>
        Ravada is an open source tool for managing Virtual Desktop
        Infrastructure (VDI). It is very easy to install and use. Following
        the documentation, you'll be ready to deploy virtual machines in
        minutes. The only requirements for the users are a Web browser and
        a lightweight remote viewer.
      </dd>
      <dt><a href="https://github.com/cutelyst/Virtlyst">Virtlyst</a></dt>
      <dd>
        Virtlyst is an open source web application built with C++11, Cutelyst and Qt.
        It features:
        <ul>
          <li>Low memory usage (around 5 MiB of RAM)</li>
          <li>Look and feel easily customized with HTML templates that use the Django syntax</li>
          <li>VNC/Spice console directly in the browser using websockets on the same HTTP port</li>
          <li>Host and Domain statistics graphs (CPU, Memory, IO, Network)</li>
          <li>Connect to multiple libvirtd instances (over local Unix domain socket, SSH, TCP and TLS)</li>
          <li>Manage Storage Pools, Storage Volumes, Networks, Interfaces, and Secrets</li>
          <li>Create and launch VMs</li>
          <li>Configure VMs with easy panels or go pro and edit the VM's XML</li>
        </ul>
      </dd>
    </dl>

    <h2><a id="other">Other</a></h2>

    <dl>
      <dt><a href="https://cuckoosandbox.org/">Cuckoo Sandbox</a></dt>
      <dd>
        Cuckoo Sandbox is a malware analysis system.  You can throw
        any suspicious file at it and in a matter of seconds Cuckoo
        will provide you back some detailed results outlining what
        such file did when executed inside an isolated environment.
        And libvirt is one of the backends that can be used for the
        isolated environment.
      </dd>
    </dl>

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