KDE Plasma Gets a New Virtual Machine Manager: Karton

A new virtual machine manager, Karton, is in development for the KDE Plasma desktop environment. Funded by Google Summer of Code 2025, University of Waterloo student Derek Lin is building this Qt Quick and Kirigami-based application. Karton aims to provide a native KDE experience, using the libvirt API to manage VMs and eventually supporting cross-platform functionality. Current development focuses on core features like a new domain installer (using libosinfo instead of virt-install), a custom SPICE viewer, and more fine-grained VM configuration options. Karton is targeted for a mid-term evaluation on July 14th and final submission on September 1st.