Virt Commander

A gui for QEMU/Libvirt made in Java so you can start, stop, add, remove to virsh and connect to them. I made this because i had troubles getting the virt-manager to work on MacOS, so i made my own.

This is far from production ready so beware.

Current state of Development

I found UTM (https://mac.getutm.app/), which is the same as this program but better in almost every way. Development on this and Virt-Server will stop.

Features:

Show resources assigned to a machine:

• CPU's
• Amount of RAM
• Disks:
  • Type of disk
  • Location
  • Type of storage
• Forwarded Ports
• Create / destroy machines:
• Configurator:
• Add new diskfiles or select exsisting ones.
• Supports remote management with Virt Server https://github.com/LucaOonk/Virt-Server
• Show disk size (Actual Used / Provisioned)

Depends on:

• libvirt https://www.libvirt.org
• QEMU https://www.qemu.org
• virt-viewer

Compatibility

Works on MacOS 11. MacOS 12 is not supported for now as the dependencies are not ready yet.

How to install dependencies on MacOS:

• First, install homebrew, which is a package manager for macOS.
• Run brew install qemu gcc libvirt virt-viewer.

Since macOS doesn't support QEMU security features, we need to disable them:

• echo 'security_driver = "none"' >> /usr/local/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
• echo "dynamic_ownership = 0" >> /usr/local/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
• echo "remember_owner = 0" >> /usr/local/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf

Finally start the libvirt service, with brew services start libvirt. It will start after boot as well.

Download:

Releases can be found here: https://github.com/LucaOonk/Virt-Commander/releases

Planned features:

• Edit VM configuration:
  • Edit Vm resources
  • Add/remove disks
• Darkmode

Distant future features:

• VM-usage graphs

Known Issues:

• After a while being idle the info of the VM disappears and is set to Null. Current workaround is to click Show Info again or Refresh.
• Storage of disk is Null, this is caused by the name/path of the file. If there is a space in the name it wont report the storage.