Installation guide

Chapter 31.
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Managing guests with the Virtual
Machine Manager (virt-manager)
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 virtualized guests. virt-manager can perform
virtualization management tasks, including:
• assigning memory,
• assigning virtual CPUs,
• monitoring operational performance,
• saving and restoring, pausing and resuming, and shutting down and starting virtualized guests,
• links to the textual and graphical consoles, and
• live and offline migrations.
31.1. Starting virt-manager
To start virt-manager session open the Applications menu, then the System Tools menu and
select Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager).
The virt-manager main window appears.