User:Egberts/Drafts/Virt-manager

The virt-manager application is a Article description::desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but also manages Xen and LXC (linux containers). It presents a summary view of running domains, their live performance & resource utilization statistics. Wizards enable the creation of new domains, and configuration & adjustment of a domain’s resource allocation & virtual hardware. An embedded VNC and SPICE client viewer presents a full graphical console to the guest domain [//virt-manager.org].

Kernel
The following kernel config is recommended by the libvirt installer (source?).

User Permissions
After emerging, to run virt-manager as a normal user, ensure each user has been added to the group:

Uncomment the following lines from the libvirtd configuration file:

Be sure to have the user log out then log in again for the new group settings to be applied.

Issue the following command to restart the libvirtd service under OpenRC:

Issue the following command to restart the libvirtd service under systemd:

should now be launchable as a regular user.

Files

 * - Global (system wide) configuration file.

Checking networking
Network interfaces for virt-manager can be checked by running