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Current releases

Prerequisite is Fedora 9 installed on a machine with hardware virtualization suppport, latest updates, kvm, libvirt, virt-manager and virt-viewer.

Download oVirt x86_64 appliance or download oVirt i386 appliance

and uncompress the image to /var/lib/libvirt/images/

# tar xf ovirt-developer-appliance-0.91-1-*.tar -C /var/lib/libvirt/images/

Run the script to create the virtual machine

# cd /var/lib/libvirt/images/ovirt-developer-appliance-*; bash create-wui-appliance.sh -d "`pwd`" -v

Use virt-manager to start the virtual machine named 'developer' or use virsh command line

# virsh start developer
# virt-viewer developer

When appliance is booted, you can start managed nodes:

# virsh start node3
# virsh start node4
...

At this point, your appliance should be ready. Now, you can bring up the main oVirt screen by running firefox on the guest (here you'll need the root password, which is ovirt):

# ssh -fY root@192.168.50.2 firefox -no-remote

To connect to the console of a virtual machine running on a managed node use:

# ssh -fY root@192.168.50.2 virt-viewer -c qemu+tcp://node3.priv.ovirt.org/system VM_NAME