Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) is a graphical tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt, mainly QEMU/KVM virtual machines, with Xen and libvirt LXC containers supported. It also provides command line tools: virt-install to create virtual machines, virt-clone to duplicate them and virt-xml to edit them or manipulate libvirt XML.
Virt-Manager is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, and also manages Xen and LXC containers. It shows a summary view of running domains with live performance and resource statistics, and includes wizards for creating domains and adjusting resource allocation and virtual hardware. An embedded VNC and SPICE client viewer provides a graphical console to the guest domain.
OSBoxes provides ready-to-use virtual machine images in VDI, VMDK and VHD formats for VirtualBox and VMware. The site offers images of Linux and Unix systems that can be downloaded and run as a virtual machine on a host system, avoiding installation alongside the main operating system.
Lima launches Linux virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding, similar to WSL2. It includes built-in support for containerd, and other container engines can also be used. Various guest Linux distributions are supported, with Ubuntu as the default, along with experimental support for non-Linux guests. Lima is a CNCF incubating project.
Dexpot is a system utility for Windows, hardware checks, cleanup, process control, or desktop customization.
A virtual museum of operating systems and standalone applications running under emulation, delivered as a single Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM. It states that over 1,700 operating systems and applications are pre-installed and pre-configured, with bundled emulators, a custom emulator-independent launcher, and one-click launch scripts for Windows and Linux. A snapshot feature can revert broken installations.
Looking Glass is open-source software for responsive, low-latency display and input, released under the GPL 2.0 licence. It brings a Windows desktop into a Linux window and is used with a KVM VGA PCI pass-through configuration without an attached physical monitor, keyboard or mouse.
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Virt-Manager is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, and also manages Xen and LXC containers. It shows a summary view of running domains with live performance and resource statistics, and includes wizards for creating domains and adjusting resource allocation and virtual hardware. An embedded VNC and SPICE client viewer provides a graphical console to the guest domain.
OSBoxes provides ready-to-use virtual machine images in VDI, VMDK and VHD formats for VirtualBox and VMware. The site offers images of Linux and Unix systems that can be downloaded and run as a virtual machine on a host system, avoiding installation alongside the main operating system.
Lima launches Linux virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding, similar to WSL2. It includes built-in support for containerd, and other container engines can also be used. Various guest Linux distributions are supported, with Ubuntu as the default, along with experimental support for non-Linux guests. Lima is a CNCF incubating project.
Dexpot is a system utility for Windows, hardware checks, cleanup, process control, or desktop customization.
A virtual museum of operating systems and standalone applications running under emulation, delivered as a single Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM. It states that over 1,700 operating systems and applications are pre-installed and pre-configured, with bundled emulators, a custom emulator-independent launcher, and one-click launch scripts for Windows and Linux. A snapshot feature can revert broken installations.
Looking Glass is open-source software for responsive, low-latency display and input, released under the GPL 2.0 licence. It brings a Windows desktop into a Linux window and is used with a KVM VGA PCI pass-through configuration without an attached physical monitor, keyboard or mouse.
