The KVMGuest agent monitors a virtual machine (KVM guest) created in KVM environment or Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) environment.

The agent brings virtual machines online, takes them offline, and also migrates virtual machines. The KVMGuest agent uses virsh commands to manage the virtual machine in KVM environment and Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs to manage the virtual machines in RHEV environment.

Disaster Recovery of virtual machines is supported only in case of RHEV environment.

You can use this agent to make a virtual machine highly available and to monitor it.

Cluster Server supports guest virtual machines created on:

See Notes for KVMGuest agent. for important information on this agent.