What is QEMU Manager?
QEMU Manager is an open-source graphical front-end application for managing QEMU virtual machines. It provides an intuitive interface for creating, running, stopping, deleting, and monitoring QEMU VMs without needing to use the QEMU command line.
Key features of QEMU Manager include:
- Create new QEMU VMs with customizable hardware configurations such as CPU, memory, hard drives, network interfaces, USB devices, etc.
- Start, stop, pause, and delete QEMU VMs with the click of a button
- Seamlessly attach and detach additional drives and ISO images
- Monitor resource usage statistics for running VMs such as CPU, memory, disk and network usage
- Remote viewing using VNC, Spice or noVNC
- Snapshot management for saving and restoring VM states
- Command line access via an integrated shell console
- Supports QEMU KVM for hardware accelerated virtualization
QEMU Manager runs on Linux and provides a user-friendly way to leverage the power and flexibility of QEMU virtualization without needing extensive command line knowledge. It can help improve productivity for developers, system administrators, and anyone else working with QEMU VMs.
VirtualBox, QEMU, VMware Workstation Pro, Parallels Desktop, VMware Workstation Player, KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), virt-manager, VMware Fusion, Boxes, VMWare Disk Mount, VMLite MyOldPCs, VMX Builder, USBFastBoot are some alternatives to QEMU Manager.