ConVirt is an open source and free virtualization management tool that allows you to manage multiple virtualization platforms from a single interface. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install ConVirt on Linux Mint Latest.
Before you start installing ConVirt, make sure you have the following prerequisites.
ConVirt requires Java to be installed on your system. You can install Java on your Linux Mint using the following commands.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
You can download the ConVirt package from the official website of ConVirt. To download ConVirt, use the following command.
wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/convirt/files/convirt/4.0.2/ovirt-4.0.2-6.noarch.rpm/download
Once you have downloaded the ConVirt package, you can install it using the following command.
sudo alien -i ovirt-4.0.2-6.noarch.rpm
Note: Alien is used to convert the RPM package to DEB package.
To start ConVirt, use the following command.
sudo /etc/init.d/convirt-controller-4.0 start
In this tutorial, we learned how to install ConVirt on Linux Mint Latest. ConVirt is now ready to be used to manage virtualization platforms.
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