So if your workstation at your desk runs a different operating system, you can still use a web browser on it to connect to the RHEL Web Console and manage the virtual machines running on the RHEL system. The advantage of managing virtual machines from the Web Console is that you can access it from anywhere in the world you have a web browser and access to port 9090 on the RHEL 8 system. Want to see it in action? I’ve created a video that provides an overview of Web Console and its functionality. If you’re not familiar with the Web Console, it is a web based management tool that allows you to complete many common RHEL tasks from a web browser. However, virt-manager is still included in RHEL 8, and some functionality may only be available from virt-manager or from the command line. It is recommended that you use the Web Console as your virtual machine graphical management tool.

The Web Console is intended to become its replacement in a subsequent release. One of the features included with RHEL 8 Beta is the ability to manage virtual machines from the Web Console (also known as Cockpit), and the announcement that virt-manager has been deprecated. With RHEL 8, now in beta, you’ll be able to do this from your browser. In RHEL 7, the primary graphical user interface tool that is used for this is virt-manager. If you’ve been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for very long, you’ve likely created and used KVM virtual machines at some point.

Open virtualmachine manager