Installing Virtual Machine Manager – virt-manager

virt-manager

 

The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but also manages Xen and LXC (linux containers). It presents a summary view of running domains, their live performance & resource utilization statistics. Wizards enable the creation of new domains, and configuration & adjustment of a domain’s resource allocation & virtual hardware. An embedded VNC and SPICE client viewer presents a full graphical console to the guest domain.

It is distributed under the GNU General Public License, see the file COPYING in the distribution for the precise wording.

 

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How to install Virt-manager?

# yum install virt-manager (Fedora)

# apt-get install virt-manager (Debian)

# emerge virt-manager (Gentoo)

Install from source file

# wget http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-manager/virt-manager-1.1.0.tar.gz

# tar -zxvf virt-manager-1.1.0.tar.gz

# ./virt-manager
To install the software into /usr/local (usually), you can do:

python setup.py install

To build an RPM, you can run:

python setup.py rpm

setup.py generally has all the build and install commands, for more info see:

python setup.py –help-commands
python setup.py install –help
http://docs.python.org/inst/standard-install.html