Ubuntu 12.04 / kvm / convirt can not be installed properly

Thu May 10 14:57:09 UTC 2012

Quoting Thorsten Göllner (tg at ovm-group.com):
> >Quoting Thorsten Göllner (tg at ovm-group.com):
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> >>     Hi,<br>
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> >>     I am working for 3 days on a server installation (12.04) now. I am
> >>     using kvm to run virtual machines on my server. I was looking now
> >>     for a management tool and tried convirt. After apt-get install
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> >Can I ask why you chose convirt, rather than the (preferred on ubuntu
> >server) libvirt?
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> I thought, that convirt is a "pure" management tool
> (see http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Management_Tools)
> 
> But maybe I am wrong ...
> 
> Is there another managment tool you can recommend?

virt-manager is a gui around libvirt, both of which are in main.

-serge