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Desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2020-09-04 · latest 2026-07-10

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  1. …Red Hat) is the reason, or maintainer is just an obstructionist (strictest feature policy). [0] https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/issues/358
    comment by nobody42 · 2026-07-10 · in Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian
  2. …or unknown OS. Usage is not recommended (generic)". Here it is in the code if you don't believe me: https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/blob/c3df2ba/vi... And a random tutorial which makes use of it:…
    comment by Intralexical · 2026-07-10 · in Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian
  3. There's also virt-install, which is part of the Virt Manager package. https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/blob/main/man/v... curl --output-dir $HOME/.local/share/libvirt/images/ -LO https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/bookworm/20…
    comment by khrbtxyz · 2024-06-07 · in Understanding QEMU Devices (2018)
  4. …the virt-manager homepage or GitHub that would suggest it is deprecated. https://virt-manager.org/ https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager It can't do literally everything Qemu/libvirt can do using only the UI, but given that it has…
    comment by jchw · 2024-04-16 · in Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95
  5. …E.g. virt-manager is built with glade XML and Python: virt-manager/virt-manager//ui/createvm.ui: https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/blob/main/ui/cr... virt-manager/virt-manager//ui/gfxdetails.ui:…
    comment by westurner · 2024-02-09 · in VirtualBox KVM Public Release
  6. If this is the right "Virtual Machine Manager", it doesn't look like macOS or Windows is supported. https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/blob/main/INSTA...
    comment by lioeters · 2022-08-22 · in QEMU Internals (2021)
  7. Let's see where this goes: https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/issues/358 Edit: found this, so maybe Red Hat considers this a feature which is working by design: https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/pull/166
    comment by CyberShadow · 2022-02-05 · in Who keeps an eye on clipboard access?
  8. …independently. By whom? The vast majority of contributions are paid for by Red Hat [0]. [0]: https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/graphs/contribu...
    comment by indolering · 2020-09-04 · in Libvirt – The Unsung Hero of Cloud Computing (2013)