Management Tools

Name/URL

Description

UI Type

Last Updated

Notes

License


Mist.io

Mist.io is an all-in-one solution that helps you manage your entire infrastructure from a single UI and API. Whether you’re using multiple public or private clouds, KVM hypervisors, Docker containers or bare metal servers, you can manage and monitor them from one central place using a responsive, touch-friendly interface. You can install the  open-source version or try the freemium service. VM management is free while monitoring requires a subscription.

Web, Mobile, REST API, CLI

Active

Uses libvirt and libcloud for VM management. Supports KVM, several public cloud providers, OpenStack, Docker and bare metal servers.

AGPL v3 for the open source version, Commercial for the service


Platform9 Managed OpenStack

Platform9 makes it very easy to manage a KVM environment with resource pooling and automation. Platform9 Managed OpenStack is a SaaS solution that easily integrates with any new or existing servers running KVM. The OpenStack powered service supports major Linux distributions. See the demo for KVM.

UI, OpenStack CLI, OpenStack API

Active

Works well with existing environments. See Getting Started With Platform9.

Commercial


nbsvm

No Bullshit VMs. No setup required. No dependencies but sudo, and LVM or ZFS. Start, stop, create and clone images and view VMs using simple chained commands. Basically applies sane (overridden by cli or file) defaults to the kvm invocation and gets out of the way. Sudo invocation is designed to allow user access controls.

CLI

February 2014



WTFPL 2


Witsbits

Witsbits enables you to set up your servers with virtualization and deploy virtual machines faster than ever before. It’s a complete virtualization solution with a self-upgrading hypervisor and cloud-based centralized management, reducing time spent on maintenance to a fraction of what other solutions require. The self-configuring hypervisor comes as a Live CD, delivering the fastest time-to-deployment by removing the need for spending time on installation and configuration.

Web

Active

Live CD Hypervisor with SaaS Management System

Free for 5 CPUs (full version)


Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus is open source software for building AWS-compatible private and hybrid clouds. Eucalyptus allows IT organizations to build an on-premises Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud that pools together compute, storage, and network resources. With Eucalyptus, developers can leverage knowledge and tools around AWS APIs, including EC2, S3, EBS, IAM, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, and CloudWatch.  IT can create a flexible hybrid cloud environment so that developers can develop sooner, test more, and deploy faster while giving IT and cloud admins greater control of cloud performance, scale, and security.

Web, CLI, REST, SOAP

Active

Supports KVM and VMware. Uses libvirt. View the Eucalyptus Compatibility Matrix: http:///QfH4Iv

GPL v3


UVMM

UCS Virtual Machine Manager (UVMM) is an easy-to-use and powerful administration tool for KVM. It virtualizes Microsoft Windows, Univention Corporate Server and other Linux distributions by providing all the necessary functions for creating and managing virtual instances (also OpenStack and Amazon EC2-based resources) and hard drives on physical servers centrally via a web-based modern interface. It is included in Univention Corporate Server by default, an Enterprise Linux distribution with an integrated management system.

Web, CLI

Active

Supports KVM, Uses libvirt

Commercial, Free for personal use edition available, AGPL v3


Plain qemu/kvm

You can run qemu/kvm straight from the command line

CLI

Active

See man (qemu-system-x86_64 or kvm or qemu-kvm) for more info

GPL v2


virsh

A minimal shell around libvirt for managing VMs

CLI

Active

Uses libvirt

LGPL


VMM / Virtual Machine Manager

Also known as virt-manager. A desktop user interface for managing virtual machines.

Desktop

Active

Uses libvirt

GPL v2


VMM's supporting tools virt-install/clone/convert

Command line tools for provisioning new VMs, cloning existing VMs and importing / converting appliance images.

CLI

Active

Uses libvirt

GPL v2


Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization / RHEV

Commercial management solution for RHEL / KVM.

Web

Active



Commercial


VMmanager

Software solution for virtualization management that can be used both for hosting virtual machines and building a cloud. With VMmanager you can manage not only one server, but a large cluster of hypervisors. It delivers a number of functions, such as live migration that allows for load balancing between cluster nodes, monitoring CPU, memory and I/O operation enabling to detect problematic nodes, use of local and networks storages, and many tools for efficient management.

Web, CLI, REST

Active

KVM, uses libvirt

Commercial


Proxmox VE

Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines

Web, CLI

Active

Bar-metall installer including KVM and OpenVZ management tools

AGPL v3


ConVirt

ConVirt 2.0 Open Source is the leading open source product for managing Xen and KVM, enabling you to standardize and proactively manage your virtualized environment in a centralized fashion.

Web

Active

Xen & KVM; formerly known as xenman

GPL v2


oVirt

oVirt is a virtualization management framework constisting of a small host image, the oVirt Node, that provides the libvirt service to host virtual machines, and a robust vm management software stack, controlled by a web-based management interface, the oVirt Server.

Web

Active

uses libvirt

Apache License v2


op5

op5 develops and delivers op5 Monitor a enterprise-class software for IT monitoring and administration of the whole IT. op5 developed a KVM plug-in to monitor KVM virtualization infrastructure that allows organizations to have better capacity planning, which enables the provisioning of usage of resources such as storage, CPU, and memory more proactively.

Web, REST

Active

Uses libvirt

GPL v2


OpenNebula

an open source virtual infrastructure engine

CLI, XML-RPC

Active

cloud computing managment; uses libvirt

Apache License v2


OpenNode

RHEL/CentOS based open-source server virtualization and management solution - simple bare-metal installer, providing KVM+OpenVZ host and standard libvirt, func management interfaces together with standard cli tools like virsh and vzctl. OpenNode Management Server with ajax web-based management console available - as is RPC-JSON API interface.

Web, CLI, API

Active

Bare-metal installer, KVM, OpenVZ hypervizors and variety of management tools

Unknown


Ganeti

Ganeti is a cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies

CLI

Active

KVM support added in Ganeti 2.0

GPL v2


Karesansui

Karesansui is an open-source virtualization management application. It's smart graphical user interface lowers your management cost, and brings a total management/audit solution for both physical and virtual servers.

Web, REST

Active

KVM & Xen support; uses libvirt

LGPL v2.1/GPL v2


openQRM

openQRM is the next generation, open-source Data-center management platform.

Web

Active

KVM, Xen, VMware and Linux V-Server support

GPL v2


Abiquo

Abiquo is a technology-agnostic solution for enterprises and service providers who want to quickly and simply build, manage and develop public and private clouds based on their existing heterogeneous environments.

Web, REST

Active

KVM, Xen, VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V & XenServer support; uses libvirt

Commercial


CloudStack

Cloudstack is an open source project that enables the deployment, management, and configuration of multi-tier and multi-tenant infrastructure cloud services using Xen, KVM and VMware hypervisors.

Web

Active

KVM, Xen & VMware support

Apache License v2


Nimbula Director

Nimbula Director is a Cloud Operating System that enables Infrastructure as a Service using the KVM.

Web, CLI, REST

Active

KVM support

Commercial (Freemium)


Archipel

Archipel is an Open Source project that aims to bring push notifications to virtualization orchestration using XMPP.

Web

Active

KVM, Xen, Virtual Box & OpenVZ support; uses libvirt

AGPL v3


kvm-wrapper

kvm-wrapper is a lightweight, simple and intended to be hackable set of shell scripts that help manage kvm virtual machines a great deal.

CLI

Active

KVM support

WTFPL (v2)


kvm-admin

Python scripts for managing the guests (boot, shutdown ...) and include a commandline monitor .

CLI

Active

kvm support

GPL v2


SolusVM

The most popular control panel for commercial use.

Web

Active

KVM, Xen & OpenVZ support

Commercial


Stackops Openstack Distro

Stackops is an Openstack Nova distribution verified and tested for KVM. You only need to download the ISO image with the distro and install it on one or more servers.

CLI, REST

Active

KVM & QEMU (libvirt based)

Apache License v2


WebVirtMgr

Web service for managing VMs based on the KVM

WEB

Active

Only KVM; use libvirt

Apache License v2


Foreman

Foreman is aimed to be a Single Address For All Machines Life

Cycle Management including bare metal / vm / cloud provisioning, configuration managememnt and configureation reports/auditing using puppet

Web, REST, CLI

Active

KVM, VMWare, oVirt RHEV-M, EC2, OpenStack

GPL v3


Virtualbricks

Python-gtk GUI to manage guest and hybrid (host/guest) networks.

CLI

2011-11-23

kvm, qemu, ksm & VDE support

GPL v2


AQemu

a Qt4 user interface for KVM

Desktop

2013-05-30



GPL v2


Enomaly

a programmable virtual cloud infrastructure for small, medium and large businesses

Web, REST

Not available as of 2010-02-08

they have commercial and open source editions

Commercial/AGPL v3


kvmadm

a minimalistic set of command-line tools to control multi-user utilization of KVM

CLI

2007-09-25



GPL v2


GKVM

A Gnome user interface for KVM.

Desktop

2007-08-01



GPL v2


kvmupdown

simple, robust and no-bloat management interface.

CLI

Link broken, probably terminated project

KVM

public domain


kimchi

Kimchi is an HTML5 based management tool for KVM.  It is designed to make it

as easy as possible to get started with KVM and create your first guest.

WEB

Active

KVM

LGPL,Apache License v2

cloonix

cloonix is a virtualization management framework aimed at virtual networks building based on kvm.

Gui/cli

Active

KVM

RPL Licence

vmmaestro

vmmaestro is a tiny shell script which can start/stop/monitor KVM guests.

CLI

Active

KVM

MIT License