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Virtual Machine Manager is what you're looking for I think
Should ask what platform here, IMO: virt-manager is Linux-only. (Or, I suppose, doing remote X stuff to run it elsewhere but that's probably not what OP is after.)
There's some command line stuff you can run on Windows, but then at that point, you can just use virsh on the host itself.
I'm of the opinion that virsh to manage and then a spice or vnc client to access the VMs is the "best" way to go so you're not tied down to having to have a specific OS running a specific tool in order to do any admin stuff, since I mean, after you deploy how often are you screwing with the VM settings?
You can run virtual manager on other platforms but some features will be missing
There's also Cockpit if you just want a basic UI
I've never liked web UIs that have that level of permissions to screw around with the OS it's hosted on.
Maybe that's just some grumpy greybeard thing, but I'd really rather not have a single management plane that has full access to EVERYTHING, since that just feels like you're one configuration oopsie away from some guy in Albania (<3 you, Albania) uploading all his hentai to your server and then trying to hack the FBI or some shit. (Or, you know, the much more boring oops-i'm-a-zombie-now outcome.)
Good point about platform agnostic remote for management stuff. VNC is ideal for this.
And systems like Proxmox use a web GUI for most stuff, it's a touch slow but I think that's mostly just waiting for the system to finish the actual changes I make, and not the UI.
VNC is not really ideal for anything. For actual desktop usage you want RDP or sunlight/moonshine