Installing Virt-Manager¶
How to install Virt-Manager on Windows OS¶
Installation¶
To install Virt-Manager on Windows OS, you need to follow these steps:
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Go to the official website of Virt-Manager and download the installer appropriates architecture (x86 or x64) of the local device.
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Run the downloaded installer by clicking on it with the left mouse button.
- Follow the instructions of the Virt-Manager setup wizard.
Launch the VNC console¶
After completing the installation of Virt-Manager to launch the VNC console, you should:
- Go to the Invapi control panel.
- Open the Console and IPMI Access section.
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Click on the
Launch VNC console. button. It will load theconsole.vv
file. -
Left-click on the downloaded
console.vv
file to launch the VNC console.
Installing Virt-Manager on Linux¶
Installation¶
Here are instructions for installing Virt-Manager on different distributions:
Ubuntu/Debian:¶
Fedora:¶
Gentoo:¶
OpenBSD:
Arch Linux/Manjaro:¶
Note
After installation, Virt-Manager will be ready to use. Launch it by running the virt-manager
command in the terminal or finding it in the distribution's application menu.
Attention
For Virt-Manager to operate successfully, the local device's BIOS/UEFI must support hardware virtualization.
How to install Virt-Manager on Mac OS¶
Installation¶
You need to follow the steps below to install Virt-Manager on Mac OS:
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Install the manager of missing packages for macOS:
Note
Alternative installation methods can be found here.
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Connect the repository:
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Install the console:
Note
As a result of the specified actions, the following dependencies will be installed automatically:
intltool, libtool, jpeg, libtiff, libpng, gdk-pixbuf, atk, libepoxy, freetype, fontconfig, pixman, cairo, fribidi, graphite2, icu4c, harfbuzz, pango, hicolor-icon-theme, gdbm, openssl, readline, sqlite, python@2, gsettings-desktop-schemas, gtk+3, libtasn1, gmp, nettle, libunistring, p11-kit, gnutls, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, gtk-vnc, yajl, libvirt, gobject-introspection, libxml2, libvirt-glib, shared-mime-info, autoconf, bdw-gc, guile, autogen, automake, webp, gd, graphviz, vala, lz4, spice-protocol, libusb, usbredir, bison, gstreamer, orc, gst-plugins-base, xz, gst-libav, glib-networking, libsoup, gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-bad, gst-plugins-ugly, spice-gtk.
Attention
In some cases, the error
The requested URL returned error:404
. The cause of this error is a change in the distribution download link. Current links to Virt-Manager can be found here. -
Run Virt-Manager:
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You can create an application on
Automator.app
to automate access to Virt-Manager on Mac OS.5.1 You must select the option Program as the type of document.
5.2 You need to insert the "body" of the script
/usr/local/bin/remote-viewer «$@»
(or/opt/homebrew/bin/remote-viewer "$@"
). Input data must be passed as an argument.5.3 Then you should save the application. The used name is
oVirt-Viewer.app
in our case. -
Go to the Web-console oVirt and select the required machine:
Select SPICE and specify to the browser to open
vv
files withoVirt-Viewer.app
.A window with the virtual machine console will open after performing these steps:
Information
Based on the suggested solution is the homebrew-virt-manager build.