Virtualization packages

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Core Virtualization

• kernel provides e.g. the kvm hypervisor core (kvm.ko), support for running as KVM and Xen guests etc.
• qemu is a CPU and device emulator; it also acts as the userspace component of KVM
• libvirt is a toolkit for interacting with the various virtualization technologies
• xen provides the xen hypervisor and userspace components
• xenner allows Xen guests to be run on KVM
• bochs PC BIOS for QEMU
• gpxe PXE boot ROMs for QEMU
• vgabios video BIOS for QEMU
• openbios sparc/ppc BIOS for QEMU

Tools

• virt-manager is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines
• virt-viewer is used by virt-manager to connect to a virtual machine's graphical console
• python-virtinst provides a python API for installing virtual machines, and a bunch of useful utilitis like virt-install and virt-clone
• gnome-applet-vm is a GNOME applet for monitoring and controlling virtual machines
• virt-top is a top-like utilitiy for virtual machines
• libguestfs provides an API and tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images
• guestfish lets you access and modify virtual machine disk images from the command line
• libguestfs-tools provides useful tools: virt-df, virt-cat, virt-edit, virt-ls, virt-inspector, virt-rescue, virt-win-reg
• libguestfs-mount (guestmount) lets you mount virtual machine disk images on the host
• collectd-libvirt gathers statistics from within virtual machines
• appliance-tools enables the building of virtual appliance images
• cobbler is a network boot server that can be used to provision virtual machines
• perl-Sys-Virt-TCK is a functional test suite for libvirt
• virt-v2v is a tool for converting virtual machines to use the KVM hypervisor

Language Bindings

For libvirt

• libvirt-python
• perl-Sys-Virt
• ruby-libvirt
• ocaml-libvirt
• libvirt-java

For libguestfs

• libguestfs-java
• ocaml-libguestfs
• perl-libguestfs
• python-libguestfs
• ruby-libguestfs

Obsolete

• kvm used to provide the userspace component of the kvm hypervisor. It has since been replaced by qemu
• etherboot has been replaced by gpxe
• virt-mem is going to be replaced by other virt tools