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You can + even use your favorite chat clients to command your infrastructure. + </dd> + <dd> + Isn't it great to be able to open a chat conversation with your + virtual machine and say things like "How are you today?" or "Hey, + please reboot"? + </dd> + </dl> + <h2><a name="command">Command line tools</a></h2> <dl> + <dt><a href="http://libguestfs.org">guestfish</a></dt> + <dd> + Guestfish is an interactive shell and command-line tool for examining + and modifying virtual machine filesystems. It uses libvirt to find + guests and their associated disks. + </dd> <dt>virsh</dt> <dd> An interactive shell, and batch scriptable tool for performing management tasks on all libvirt managed domains, networks and storage. This is part of the libvirt core distribution. </dd> - <dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-install</a></d... - <dd> - Provides a way to provision new virtual machines from a - OS distribution install tree. It supports provisioning from - local CD images, and the network over NFS, HTTP and FTP. - </dd> <dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-clone</a></dt> <dd> Allows the disk image(s) and configuration for an existing virtual machine to be cloned to form a new virtual machine. It automates copying of data across to new disk images, and - updates the UUID, Mac address and name in the configuration + updates the UUID, MAC address, and name in the configuration. + </dd> + <dt><a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/">virt-df</a&g... + <dd> + Examine the utilization of each filesystem in a virtual machine + from the comfort of the host machine. This tool peeks into the + guest disks and determines how much space is used. It can cope + with common Linux filesystems and LVM volumes. </dd> <dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-image</a></dt> <dd> @@ -53,12 +80,11 @@ into the domain XML format for execution under any libvirt hypervisor meeting the pre-requisites. </dd> - <dt><a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/">virt-df</a&g... + <dt><a href="http://virt-manager.org/">virt-install</a></d... <dd> - Examine the utilization of each filesystem in a virtual machine - from the comfort of the host machine. This tool peeks into the - guest disks and determines how much space is used. It can cope - with common Linux filesystems and LVM volumes. + Provides a way to provision new virtual machines from a + OS distribution install tree. It supports provisioning from + local CD images, and the network over NFS, HTTP and FTP. </dd> <dt><a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/">virt-top</a... <dd> @@ -67,26 +93,6 @@ </dd> </dl> - <h2><a name="clientserver">Client/Server applications</a></h2> - - <dl> - <dt><a href="http://archipelproject.org">Archipel</a></dt> - <dd> - Archipel is a libvirt-based solution to manage and supervise virtual - machines. It uses XMPP for all communication. There is no web - service or custom protocol. You just need at least one XMPP server, - like eJabberd, to start playing with it. This allows Archipel to - work completely real time. You never have to refresh the user - interface, you'll be notified as soon as something happens. You can - even use your favorite chat clients to command your infrastructure. - </dd> - <dd> - Isn't it great to be able to open a chat conversation with your - virtual machine and say things like "How are you today?" or "Hey, - please reboot"? - </dd> - </dl> - <h2><a name="desktop">Desktop applications</a></h2> <dl> @@ -106,23 +112,20 @@ </dd> </dl> - <h2><a name="web">Web applications</a></h2> + <h2><a name="libraries">Libraries</a></h2> <dl> - <dt><a href="http://ovirt.org/">oVirt</a></dt> + <dt><a href="http://libguestfs.org">libguestfs</a></dt> <dd> - oVirt provides the ability to manage large numbers of virtual - machines across an entire data center of hosts. It integrates - with FreeIPA for Kerberos authentication, and in the future, - certificate management. + A library and set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual + machine disk images. It can be linked with C and C++ management + programs, and has bindings for Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, OCaml, + PHP, Haskell, and C#. </dd> - <dt><a href="http://community.abiquo.com/display/AbiCloud">AbiCloud... <dd> - AbiCloud is an open source cloud platform manager which allows to - easily deploy a private cloud in your datacenter. One of the key - differences of AbiCloud is the web rich interface for managing the - infrastructure. You can deploy a new service just dragging and - dropping a VM. + Using its FUSE module, you can also mount guest filesystems on the + host, and there is a subproject to allow merging changes into the + Windows Registry in Windows guests. </dd> </dl> @@ -133,31 +136,31 @@ <dd> A tool for converting a physical machine into a virtual machine. It is a LiveCD which is booted on the machine to be converted. It collects - a little information from the user and then copies the disks over to + a little information from the user, then copies the disks over to a remote machine and defines the XML for a domain to run the guest. </dd> </dl> <h2><a name="monitoring">Monitoring plugins</a></h2> <dl> - <dt><a href="http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/libvirt/#munin">for munin</a></dt> - <dd> - The plugins provided by Guido G&uuml;nther allow to monitor various things - like network and block I/O with - <a href="http://munin.projects.linpro.no/">Munin</a>. - </dd> <dt><a href="http://collectd.org/plugins/libvirt.shtml">for collectd</a></dt> <dd> The libvirt-plugin is part of <a href="http://collectd.org/">collectd</a> - and gather statistics about virtualized guests on a system. This + and gathers statistics about virtualized guests on a system. This way, you can collect CPU, network interface and block device usage for each guest without installing collectd on the guest systems. - or a full description of available please refer to the libvirt section - in the collectd.conf(5) manual page. + For a full description, please refer to the libvirt section in the + collectd.conf(5) manual page. + </dd> + <dt><a href="http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/libvirt/#munin">for munin</a></dt> + <dd> + The plugins provided by Guido G&uuml;nther allow to monitor various things + like network and block I/O with + <a href="http://munin.projects.linpro.no/">Munin</a>. </dd> <dt><a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/nagios-virt/">nagios-virt... <dd> - Nagios-virt is a configuration tool for adding monitoring of your + Nagios-virt is a configuration tool to add monitoring of your virtualised domains to <a href="http://www.nagios.org/">Nagios</a>;. You can use this tool to either set up a new Nagios installation for your Xen or QEMU/KVM guests, or to integrate with your existing Nagios @@ -165,5 +168,25 @@ </dd> </dl> + <h2><a name="web">Web applications</a></h2> + + <dl> + <dt><a href="http://community.abiquo.com/display/AbiCloud">AbiCloud... + <dd> + AbiCloud is an open source cloud platform manager which allows to + easily deploy a private cloud in your datacenter. One of the key + differences of AbiCloud is the web rich interface for managing the + infrastructure. You can deploy a new service just dragging and + dropping a VM. + </dd> + <dt><a href="http://ovirt.org/">oVirt</a></dt> + <dd> + oVirt provides the ability to manage large numbers of virtual + machines across an entire data center of hosts. It integrates + with FreeIPA for Kerberos authentication, and in the future, + certificate management. + </dd> + </dl> + </body> </html> -- 1.7.3.2