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Chapter 20. Managing guests with Virtual Machine Manager(virt-manager)

20.1. Virtual Machine Manager Architecture
20.2. The open connection window
20.3. The Virtual Machine Manager main window
20.4. The Virtual Machine Manager details window
20.5. Virtual Machine graphical console
20.6. Starting virt-manager
20.7. Creating a new guest
20.8. Restoring a saved machine
20.9. Displaying guest details
20.10. Status monitoring
20.11. Displaying domain ID
20.12. Displaying a guest's status
20.13. Displaying virtual CPUs
20.14. Displaying CPU usage
20.15. Displaying memory usage
20.16. Managing a virtual network
20.17. Creating a virtual network
This section describes the Red Hat Virtualization Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) windows, dialog boxes, and various GUI controls.

20.1. Virtual Machine Manager Architecture

Red Hat Virtualization is a collection of software components that work together to host and manage virtual machines. The Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) gives you a graphical view of the virtual machines on your system. You can use VMM to define both para-virtual and full virtual machines. Using Virtual Machine Manager, you can perform any number of virtualization management tasks including assigning memory, assigning virtual CPUs, monitoring operational performance, and save, restore, pause, resume, and shutdown virtual systems. It also allows you to access the textual and graphical console. Red Hat Virtualization abstracts CPU and memory resources from the underlying hardware and network configurations. This enables processing resources to be pooled and dynamically assigned to applications and service requests. Chip-level virtualization enables operating systems with Intel VT and AMD-V hardware to run on hypervisors.