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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. If you know
      of interesting applications not listed on this page, send
      a message to the <a href="contact.html">mailing list</a>
      to request that 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:
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      <img src="madeWith.png" alt="Made with libvirt"/>
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    <h2>Command line tools</h2>

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      <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-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://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://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://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://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>Desktop applications</h2>

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      <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>
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    <h2>Web applications</h2>

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      <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>
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    <h2>LiveCD / Appliances</h2>

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      <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 and then copies the disks over to
	a remote machine and defines the XML for a domain to run the guest.
      </dd>
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    <h2>Monitoring plugins</h2>
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      <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://collectd.org/plugins/libvirt.shtml">for collectd</a></dt>
      <dd>
	The libvirt-plugin is part of <a href="http://collectd.org/">collectd</a>
        and gather 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.
        or a full description of available please refer to the libvirt section
        in the collectd.conf(5) manual page.
      </dd>
      <dt><a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/nagios-virt/">nagios-virt</a></dt>
      <dd>
	Nagios-virt is a configuration tool for adding 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>
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