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Building and Installing the Latest Virt-Tools on Fedora

This article will assist you in building and installing the latest virt-tools on Fedora. It was tested on Fedora 15.


Virt-manager

On Fedora, the following packages are required to compile the latest virt-manager.

gcc intltool

To install these, use 'yum install gcc intltool'

After downloading the latest virt-manager package, these commands will build and install it:

tar xfvz virt-manager-xxx.tar.gz
cd virt-manager-xxxx
./configure --prefix=/usr/
make
make install


Virtinst

On Fedora, the following packages are required to compile the latest virtinst
- python(need to check this)

After downloading the latest virttool package, these commands will build and install it:

tar xfvz virtinst-x.xxx.x.tar.gz
cd virtinst-x.xxx.x
python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/


Virt-viewer

On Fedora, the following packages are required to compile the latest virt-viewer

- gcc intltool glib2-devel libxml-devel libxml2-devel libvirt-devel gtk2-devel gtk-vnc-devel

To install these, use

yum install gcc intltool glib2-devel libxml-devel libxml2-devel libvirt-devel gtk2-devel gtk-vnc-devel


After downloading the latest virt-viewer package, these commands will build and install it:

tar xfvz virt-viewer-0.4.1.tar.gz
cd virt-viewer-0.4.1
./configure --prefix=/usr/
make
make install
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