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Chapter 16. Managing guests with the Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager)

16.1. The open connection window
16.2. The Virtual Machine Manager main window
16.3. The Virtual Machine Manager details window
16.4. Virtual Machine graphical console
16.5. Starting virt-manager
16.6. Restoring a saved machine
16.7. Displaying guest details
16.8. Status monitoring
16.9. Displaying guest identifiers
16.10. Displaying a guest's status
16.11. Displaying virtual CPUs
16.12. Displaying CPU usage
16.13. Displaying memory usage
16.14. Managing a virtual network
16.15. Creating a virtual network
This section describes the Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) windows, dialog boxes, and various GUI controls.
virt-manager provides a graphical view of hypervisors and guest on your system and on remote machines. You can use virt-manager to define both para-virtualized and fully virtualized guests. virt-manager can perform virtualization management tasks, including:

16.1. The open connection window

This window appears first and prompts the user to choose a hypervisor session. Non-privileged users can initiate a read-only session. Root users can start a session with full blown read-write status. For normal use, select the Local Xen host option or QEMU (for KVM).
Virtual Machine Manager connection window
Figure 16.1. Virtual Machine Manager connection window