diff --git a/docs/apps.html.in b/docs/apps.html.in index 8cbee17e67d67dbb3d471081a859a0e49e0cfdb5..9a8ffc0ba108c387b19d671e6466b676df8a33db 100644 --- a/docs/apps.html.in +++ b/docs/apps.html.in @@ -23,27 +23,54 @@ Made with libvirt

+

Client/Server applications

+ +
+
Archipel
+
+ 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. +
+
+ 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"? +
+
+

Command line tools

+
guestfish
+
+ 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. +
virsh
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.
-
virt-install
-
- 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. -
virt-clone
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 + updates the UUID, MAC address, and name in the configuration. +
+
virt-df
+
+ 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.
virt-image
@@ -53,12 +80,11 @@ into the domain XML format for execution under any libvirt hypervisor meeting the pre-requisites.
-
virt-df
+
virt-install
- 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. + 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.
virt-top
@@ -67,26 +93,6 @@
-

Client/Server applications

- -
-
Archipel
-
- 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. -
-
- 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"? -
-
-

Desktop applications

@@ -106,23 +112,20 @@
-

Web applications

+

Libraries

-
oVirt
+
libguestfs
- 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. + 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#.
-
AbiCloud
- 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. + 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.
@@ -133,31 +136,31 @@
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 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.

Monitoring plugins

-
for munin
-
- The plugins provided by Guido Günther allow to monitor various things - like network and block I/O with - Munin. -
for collectd
The libvirt-plugin is part of collectd - and gather statistics about virtualized guests on a system. This + 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. - or a full description of available please refer to the libvirt section - in the collectd.conf(5) manual page. + For a full description, please refer to the libvirt section in the + collectd.conf(5) manual page. +
+
for munin
+
+ The plugins provided by Guido Günther allow to monitor various things + like network and block I/O with + Munin.
nagios-virt
- Nagios-virt is a configuration tool for adding monitoring of your + Nagios-virt is a configuration tool to add monitoring of your virtualised domains to Nagios. 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 @@ -165,5 +168,25 @@
+

Web applications

+ +
+
AbiCloud
+
+ 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. +
+
oVirt
+
+ 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. +
+
+