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   3     <h1>Applications using <strong>libvirt</strong></h1>
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   5     <p>
   6       This page provides an illustration of the wide variety of
   7       applications using the libvirt management API.
   8     </p>
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  10     <ul id="toc"></ul>
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  12     <h2><a name="add">Add an application</a></h2>
  13
  14     <p>
  15       To add an application not listed on this page, send a message
  16       to the <a href="contact.html">mailing list</a>, requesting it
  17       be added here, or simply send a patch against the documentation
  18       in the libvirt.git docs subdirectory.
  19       If your application uses libvirt as its API,
  20       the following graphic is available for your website to advertise
  21       support for libvirt:
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  24     <p class="image">
  25       <img src="madeWith.png" alt="Made with libvirt"/>
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  28     <h2><a name="clientserver">Client/Server applications</a></h2>
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  30     <dl>
  31       <dt><a href="http://archipelproject.org">Archipel</a></dt>
  32       <dd>
  33         Archipel is a libvirt-based solution to manage and supervise virtual
  34         machines.  It uses XMPP for all communication. There is no web
  35         service or custom protocol.  You just need at least one XMPP server,
  36         like eJabberd, to start playing with it.  This allows Archipel to
  37         work completely real time.  You never have to refresh the user
  38         interface, you'll be notified as soon as something happens. You can
  39         even use your favorite chat clients to command your infrastructure.
  40       </dd>
  41       <dd>
  42         Isn't it great to be able to open a chat conversation with your
  43         virtual machine and say things like "How are you today?" or "Hey,
  44         please reboot"?
  45       </dd>
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  47
  48     <h2><a name="command">Command line tools</a></h2>
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  50     <dl>
  51       <dt><a href="http://libguestfs.org">guestfish</a></dt>
  52       <dd>
  53         Guestfish is an interactive shell and command-line tool for examining
  54         and modifying virtual machine filesystems.  It uses libvirt to find
  55         guests and their associated disks.
  56       </dd>
  57       <dt>virsh</dt>
  58       <dd>
  59         An interactive shell, and batch scriptable tool for performing
  60         management tasks on all libvirt managed domains, networks and
  61         storage. This is part of the libvirt core distribution.
  62       </dd>
  63       <dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-clone</a></dt>
  64       <dd>
  65         Allows the disk image(s) and configuration for an existing
  66         virtual machine to be cloned to form a new virtual machine.
  67         It automates copying of data across to new disk images, and
  68         updates the UUID, MAC address, and name in the configuration.
  69       </dd>
  70       <dt><a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/">virt-df</a></dt>
  71       <dd>
  72         Examine the utilization of each filesystem in a virtual machine
  73         from the comfort of the host machine. This tool peeks into the
  74         guest disks and determines how much space is used. It can cope
  75         with common Linux filesystems and LVM volumes.
  76       </dd>
  77       <dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-image</a></dt>
  78       <dd>
  79         Provides a way to deploy virtual appliances. It defines a
  80         simplified portable XML format describing the pre-requisites
  81         of a virtual machine. At time of deployment this is translated
  82         into the domain XML format for execution under any libvirt
  83         hypervisor meeting the pre-requisites.
  84       </dd>
  85       <dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-install</a></dt>
  86       <dd>
  87         Provides a way to provision new virtual machines from a
  88         OS distribution install tree. It supports provisioning from
  89         local CD images, and the network over NFS, HTTP and FTP.
  90       </dd>
  91       <dt><a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/">virt-top</a></dt>
  92       <dd>
  93         Watch the CPU, memory, network and disk utilization of all
  94         virtual machines running on a host.
  95       </dd>
  96       <dt>
  97         <a href="http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what/">virt-what</a>
  98       </dt>
  99       <dd>
 100         virt-what is a shell script for detecting if the program is running
 101         in a virtual machine.  It prints out a list of facts about the
 102         virtual machine, derived from heuristics.
 103       </dd>
 104     </dl>
 105
 106     <h2><a name="configmgmt">Configuration Management</a></h2>
 107
 108     <dl>
 109       <dt><a href="https://wiki.lcfg.org/bin/view/LCFG/LcfgLibvirt">LCFG</a></dt>
 110       <dd>
 111         LCFG is a system for automatically installing and managing the
 112         configuration of large numbers of Unix systems.  It is particularly
 113         suitable for sites with very diverse and rapidly changing
 114         configurations.
 115       </dd>
 116       <dd>
 117         The lcfg-libvirt package adds support for virtualized systems to
 118         LCFG, with both Xen and KVM known to work.  Cloning guests is
 119         supported, as are the bridged, routed, and isolated modes for
 120         Virtual Networking.
 121       </dd>
 122     </dl>
 123
 124     <h2><a name="continuousintegration">Continuous Integration</a></h2>
 125
 126     <dl>
 127       <dt><a href="http://buildbot.net/buildbot/docs/current/Libvirt.html">BuildBot</a></dt>
 128       <dd>
 129         BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required
 130         by most software projects.  CVS commits trigger new builds, run on
 131         a variety of client machines.  Build status (pass/fail/etc) are
 132         displayed on a web page or through other protocols.
 133       </dd>
 134     </dl>
 135
 136     <dl>
 137       <dt><a href="http://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Libvirt+Slaves+Plugin">Jenkins</a></dt>
 138       <dd>
 139         This plugin for Jenkins adds a way to control guest domains hosted
 140         on Xen or QEMU/KVM.  You configure a Jenkins Slave,
 141         selecting the guest domain and hypervisor.  When you need to build a
 142         job on a specific Slave, its guest domain is started, then the job is
 143         run.  When the build process is finished, the guest domain is shut
 144         down, ready to be used again as required.
 145       </dd>
 146     </dl>
 147
 148     <h2><a name="conversion">Conversion</a></h2>
 149
 150     <dl>
 151       <dt><a href="https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/poor-mans-p2v/">Poor mans p2v</a></dt>
 152       <dd>
 153         A simple approach for converting a physical machine to a virtual
 154         machine, using a rescue CD.
 155       </dd>
 156       <dt><a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/">virt-p2v</a></dt>
 157       <dd>
 158         An older tool for converting a physical machine into a virtual
 159         machine.  It is a LiveCD which is booted on the machine to be
 160         converted.  It collects a little information from the user, then
 161         copies the disks over to a remote machine and defines the XML for a
 162         domain to run the guest.
 163       </dd>
 164       <dt><a href="http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=virt-v2v.git;a=summary">virt-v2v</a></dt>
 165       <dd>
 166         virt-v2v converts guests from a foreign hypervisor to run on KVM,
 167         managed by libvirt.  It can currently convert Red Hat Enterprise
 168         Linux (RHEL) and Fedora guests running on Xen and VMware ESX.  It
 169         will enable VirtIO drivers in the converted guest if possible.
 170       </dd>
 171       <dd>
 172         For RHEL customers of Red Hat, conversion of Windows guests is also
 173         possible.  This conversion requires some Microsoft signed pieces,
 174         that Red Hat can provide.
 175       </dd>
 176       <dt><a href="https://launchpad.net/virt-goodies">vmware2libvirt</a></dt>
 177       <dd>
 178         Part of the <i>virt-goodies</i> package, vmware2libvirt is a python
 179         script for migrating a vmware image to libvirt.
 180       </dd>
 181     </dl>
 182
 183     <h2><a name="desktop">Desktop applications</a></h2>
 184
 185     <dl>
 186       <dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-manager</a></dt>
 187       <dd>
 188         A general purpose desktop management tool, able to manage
 189         virtual machines across both local and remotely accessed
 190         hypervisors. It is targeted at home and small office usage
 191         upto managing 10-20 hosts and their VMs.
 192       </dd>
 193       <dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-viewer</a></dt>
 194       <dd>
 195         A lightweight tool for accessing the graphical console
 196         associated with a virtual machine. It can securely connect
 197         to remote consoles supporting the VNC protocol. Also provides
 198         an optional mozilla browser plugin.
 199       </dd>
 200     </dl>
 201
 202     <h2><a name="iaas">Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)</a></h2>
 203
 204     <dl>
 205       <dt><a href="http://www.emotivecloud.net">EMOTIVE Cloud</a></dt>
 206       <dd>The EMOTIVE (Elastic Management Of Tasks In Virtualized
 207         Environments) middleware allows executing tasks and providing
 208         virtualized environments to the users with Xen, KVM or
 209         VirtualBox hypervisor. EMOTIVE's main feature is VM management
 210         with different scheduling policies. It can be also used as a
 211         cloud provider and is very easy to extend thanks to its
 212         modular Web Services architecture.
 213       </dd>
 214
 215       <dt><a href="http://www.nimbusproject.org">Nimbus</a></dt>
 216       <dd>
 217         Nimbus is an open-source toolkit focused on providing
 218         Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) capabilities to the scientific
 219         community.  It uses libvirt for communication with all KVM and Xen
 220         virtual machines.
 221       </dd>
 222     </dl>
 223
 224     <h2><a name="libraries">Libraries</a></h2>
 225
 226     <dl>
 227       <dt><a href="http://libguestfs.org">libguestfs</a></dt>
 228       <dd>
 229         A library and set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual
 230         machine disk images.  It can be linked with C and C++ management
 231         programs, and has bindings for Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, OCaml,
 232         PHP, Haskell, and C#.
 233       </dd>
 234       <dd>
 235         Using its FUSE module, you can also mount guest filesystems on the
 236         host, and there is a subproject to allow merging changes into the
 237         Windows Registry in Windows guests.
 238       </dd>
 239     </dl>
 240
 241         <dl>
 242             <dt><a href="https://github.com/ohadlevy/virt#readme">Ruby
 243             Libvirt Object bindings</a></dt>
 244             <dd>
 245                 Allows using simple ruby objects to manipulate
 246                 hypervisors, guests, storage, network etc.  It is
 247                 based on top of
 248                 the <a href="http://libvirt.org/ruby">native ruby
 249                 bindings</a>.
 250             </dd>
 251         </dl>
 252     <h2><a name="livecd">LiveCD / Appliances</a></h2>
 253
 254     <dl>
 255       <dt><a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/">virt-p2v</a></dt>
 256       <dd>
 257         An older tool for converting a physical machine into a virtual
 258         machine.  It is a LiveCD which is booted on the machine to be
 259         converted.  It collects a little information from the user, then
 260         copies the disks over to a remote machine and defines the XML for a
 261         domain to run the guest.
 262       </dd>
 263     </dl>
 264
 265     <h2><a name="monitoring">Monitoring</a></h2>
 266     <dl>
 267       <dt><a href="http://collectd.org/plugins/libvirt.shtml">collectd</a></dt>
 268       <dd>
 269         The libvirt-plugin is part of <a href="http://collectd.org/">collectd</a>
 270         and gathers statistics about virtualized guests on a system. This
 271         way, you can collect CPU, network interface and block device usage
 272         for each guest without installing collectd on the guest systems.
 273         For a full description, please refer to the libvirt section in the
 274         collectd.conf(5) manual page.
 275       </dd>
 276       <dt><a href="http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/libvirt/#munin">Munin</a></dt>
 277       <dd>
 278         The plugins provided by Guido G&uuml;nther allow to monitor various things
 279         like network and block I/O with
 280         <a href="http://munin.projects.linpro.no/">Munin</a>.
 281       </dd>
 282       <dt><a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/nagios-virt/">Nagios-virt</a></dt>
 283       <dd>
 284         Nagios-virt is a configuration tool to add monitoring of your
 285         virtualised domains to <a href="http://www.nagios.org/">Nagios</a>.
 286         You can use this tool to either set up a new Nagios installation for
 287         your Xen or QEMU/KVM guests, or to integrate with your existing Nagios
 288         installation.
 289       </dd>
 290       <dt><a href="http://community.zenoss.org/docs/DOC-4687">Zenoss</a></dt>
 291       <dd>
 292         The Zenoss libvirt Zenpack adds support for monitoring virtualization
 293         servers.  It has been tested with KVM, QEMU, VMware ESX, and VMware
 294         GSX.
 295       </dd>
 296     </dl>
 297
 298     <h2><a name="provisioning">Provisioning</a></h2>
 299
 300     <dl>
 301       <dt><a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/prov-mgr/">Tivoli Provisioning Manager</a></dt>
 302       <dd>
 303         Part of the IBM Tivoli family, Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM) is
 304         an IT lifecycle automation product.  It
 305         <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>
 306         for communication with virtualization hosts and guest domains.
 307       </dd>
 308     </dl>
 309
 310     <dl>
 311       <dt><a href="http://theforeman.org">Foreman</a></dt>
 312       <dd>
 313       Foreman is an open source web based application aimed to be a
 314       Single Address For All Machines Life Cycle Management. Foreman:
 315
 316       <ul>
 317           <li>Creates everything you need when adding a new machine to
 318           your network, its goal being automatically managing
 319           everything you would normally manage manually (DNS, DHCP,
 320           TFTP, Virtual Machines,CA, CMDB...)</li>
 321           <li>Integrates with Puppet (and acts as web front end to it).</li>
 322           <li>Takes care of provisioning until the point puppet is
 323           running, allowing Puppet to do what it does best.</li>
 324           <li>Shows you Systems Inventory (based on Facter) and
 325           provides real time information about hosts status based on
 326           Puppet reports.</li>
 327       </dd>
 328     </dl>
 329
 330
 331     <h2><a name="web">Web applications</a></h2>
 332
 333     <dl>
 334       <dt><a href="http://community.abiquo.com/display/AbiCloud">AbiCloud</a></dt>
 335       <dd>
 336         AbiCloud is an open source cloud platform manager which allows to
 337         easily deploy a private cloud in your datacenter. One of the key
 338         differences of AbiCloud is the web rich interface for managing the
 339         infrastructure. You can deploy a new service just dragging and
 340         dropping a VM.
 341       </dd>
 342       <dt><a href="http://ovirt.org/">oVirt</a></dt>
 343       <dd>
 344         oVirt provides the ability to manage large numbers of virtual
 345         machines across an entire data center of hosts. It integrates
 346         with FreeIPA for Kerberos authentication, and in the future,
 347         certificate management.
 348       </dd>
 349     </dl>
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