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1.5.5. Virtual Machine Manager
The virt-manager package contains a graphical utility to manage local and remote virtual machines. To install virt-manager enter:
sudo apt install virt-manager
Since virt-manager requires a Graphical User Interface (GUI) environment it is recommended to be installed on a workstation or test machine instead of a production server. To connect to the local libvirt service enter:
virt-manager -c qemu:///system
You can connect to the libvirt service running on another host by entering the following in a terminal prompt:
virt-manager -c qemu+ssh://virtnode1.mydomain.com/system
The above example assumes that SSH connectivity between the management system and virtnode1.mydomain.com has already been configured, and uses SSH keys for authentication. SSH keys are needed because libvirt sends the password prompt to another process. For details on configuring SSH see Section 1, “OpenSSH Server” [p. 104]