An open-source virtualization center for managing your VMs from a single web console.
Microsoft Hyper-V today, more hypervisors through lightweight agents.
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Open vCenter (OVC) is a free, Apache 2.0 licensed web console for managing virtual infrastructure. Browse your clusters, hosts and VMs, run lifecycle and power actions, edit hardware, manage templates and ISOs, and open a VM console straight from the browser.
- 🖥️ Centralized management of clusters, hosts and virtual machines
- 🔓 Fully open source, with no paid tiers or locked features
- 🧩 Agent-based architecture, ready for new hypervisors
- 🤝 Built in the open: roadmap, issues and decisions are public
| Repository | What it is |
|---|---|
| Open-vCenter | Start here: overview, quick install (Docker Compose / Kubernetes), docs |
| Open-vCenter-Frontend | React web console |
| Open-vCenter-Backend | FastAPI REST API + RabbitMQ worker (PostgreSQL, Valkey) |
| Open-vCenter-Agent-HyperV | Go Windows service that runs on every Hyper-V host |
Browser ──▶ Frontend ──REST──▶ Backend ──RabbitMQ──▶ Agent (one per host)
git clone https://github.com/openvcenter/Open-vCenter.git
cd Open-vCenter/quick-install/docker
./up.shOpen http://localhost and log in as admin / admin, then add your hosts from the console.
Full guides: Docker Compose · Kubernetes · Architecture
| Area | Status |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Hyper-V | ✅ Supported |
| vTPM and vGPU management | 🗓 Planned |
| Host affinity / anti-affinity | 🗓 Planned |
| Automatic storage workload distribution | 🗓 Planned |
| Non-Hyper-V hosts (KVM / libvirt, ...) | 🗓 Planned |
Contributions of all sizes are welcome: bug reports, docs and code. Open an issue in the main repository to report a bug or suggest a feature.
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Open vCenter is an independent open-source project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by VMware, Broadcom, or Microsoft. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.