cloud Class 3 Part 2 cockpit installation (virtualization Project)
Cockpit can manage virtual machines running on the host. These can be accessed from menu via Virtual Machines
Primary datasource is QEMU / Libvirt, access to Libvirtd is wrapped either by the virsh tool or libvirt D-Bus API bindings, depending if the latter is installed on the system. If libvirt-dbus package is not available in your distribution's software repositories you can follow the instructions here to install from sources.
Nested Virtualization
In order to run cockpit-machines plugin inside a virtual machine or run the tests for this component, you'll need nested KVM virtualization enabled (refer test/verify/nested-kvm or How to enable nested virtualization in KVM to get more information).
Managing VMs on system connection
In order to manipulate as unprivileged user VMs on system connection through cockpit-machines plugin using libvirt D-Bus provider you need to follow the instructions specified here.
Extensions
Base package cockpit-machines for management of virtual machines is based on Libvirt.
New features for cockpit-machines should be only implemented for the componenent using libvirt D-Bus.