Alternatives to WebVirtCloud
A self-hosted web interface for managing KVM virtual machines through libvirt, for admins and users. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
WebVirtCloud
A self-hosted web interface for managing KVM virtual machines through libvirt, for admins and users.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as WebVirtCloud.
Virtual Machine Manager
The standard desktop front end for KVM on Linux, plus the command line tools that go with it.
Virtual Machine Manager manages KVM through libvirt from a Linux desktop app and over SSH, instead of a web panel with user accounts.
Proxmox VE
A bare-metal server platform that runs KVM virtual machines and LXC containers from one web interface.
Proxmox VE replaces separate KVM hosts with a full server OS whose web interface manages KVM VMs and LXC containers, including backups and clustering.
oVirt
Centralised management platform for KVM virtual machines across a cluster.
oVirt is an open source web portal for KVM clusters with live migration and high availability, but it expects enterprise shared storage and development has slowed.
LXD
Canonical's open-source manager for system containers and KVM virtual machines on Linux.
LXD manages system containers and KVM virtual machines on Linux with a web interface and command-line tool, and it is open source under AGPL-3.0.
Incus
Manage Linux system containers and virtual machines through one interface.
Incus manages Linux system containers and virtual machines through one Apache-2.0 interface, using its own stack rather than libvirt.
OpenNebula
An open-source platform for building private and hybrid clouds that manage virtual machines and Kubernetes.
OpenNebula is a larger open source private cloud platform managing VMs and Kubernetes with high availability, built for data centres rather than a few hosts.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
libvirt
A toolkit, daemon and API for managing KVM, QEMU, Xen, LXC and other virtualization platforms.
KVM
The Linux kernel's built-in hypervisor for hardware-accelerated virtual machines.
QEMU
The machine emulator and virtualiser that most of the Linux virtualisation stack is built on.
virt-viewer
A console viewer for connecting to the graphical displays of virtual machines over SPICE and VNC.
Pulse
A self-hosted monitoring dashboard for Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, TrueNAS and vSphere with alerting.
Ganeti
An open-source cluster manager for running virtual machines on Xen or KVM across several servers.
