5 Virtual Machine (VM) Management Tasks

Using the Virtual machines page in the web console, Cockpit administrators can create and manage KVM-based virtual machines on the host system.

Before creating and managing VMs on the managed host system, the cockpit-machines add-on application must be installed and the Oracle Linux Virtualization packages must be installed and enabled. For instructions, see Install Cockpit-Machines and Enable Virtualization.

For more information about using Cockpit to create and manage VM instances on a host system, see the following topics:

• Create, Import, Clone, or Migrate a VM Instance
• Start, Shutdown, Remove, or Interrupt a VM Instance
• Create, Delete, or Revert a Snapshot of VM Instance
• Manage Storage Pools for VM Instances
• Configure VM Devices and Services