virtualcontrol is a configuration and monitoring tool for QEMU/KVM instances on a linux box. virtualcontrol primarily uses the KVM command line tools to do its job. Apart from trivial functions like starting and stopping virtual machines, virtualcontrol also allows freezing/thawing virtual machines (snapshot including memory dump), KVM machine migration and advanced storage functions like HA and dedicated storage solutions (OpenSANd).
This tool is a user-mode-linux start-stop perl scripts, which with you can start (or stop) a certain number of uml kernel, giving certain parameters on cmdline (ips, hostname, ...) and let's It automagically does all.