[Fedora-xen] Ubuntu/virt-manager ?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:30:58AM +0000, Andy Brook wrote:
> Thanks for that Dan,
> I downloaded the source RPM, but there isn't a clue on how to install it -
> I'm a python noob, so any advice on where to put the .py's would be great!
> thanks

Regular python install procedure is basically:

 # python setup.py  install

Which will copy python bits to the correct places

> 
> On 02/11/06, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:15:20AM +0000, axb wrote:
> >> Greetings!
> >>
> >> I've been trying to get virt-manager running on AMD64 Ubuntu 6.10, both
> >> virt-manager-0.2.5 and libvirt-0.1.8 compile and install successfully
> >> but I cant run virt manager, I get some seeingly simple error:
> >>
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>   File "/usr/local/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 104, in ?
> >>     from virtManager.engine import vmmEngine
> >>   File "/usr/local/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 33,
> >> in ?
> >>     from virtManager.create import vmmCreate
> >>   File "/usr/local/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 25,
> >> in ?
> >>     import virtinst
> >> ImportError: No module named virtinst
> >
> >As well as virt-manager  & libvirt, you need to install python-virtinst
> >which provides a higher level API around libvirt for provisioning guest
> >virtual machines. The mercurial repo is here:
> >
> >http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virtinst--devel
> >
> >Or you can get the tar.gz from the src.rpm files in FC6.
> >

Regards,
Dan.
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