Installing ConVirt on Linux Mint Latest

Introduction

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.

Prerequisites

Before you start installing ConVirt, make sure you have the following prerequisites.

• A running Linux Mint Latest operating system.
• A user account with sudo access.

Step 1: Installing Java

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

Step 2: Downloading ConVirt

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

Step 3: Installing ConVirt

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.

Step 4: Starting ConVirt

To start ConVirt, use the following command.

sudo /etc/init.d/convirt-controller-4.0 start

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we learned how to install ConVirt on Linux Mint Latest. ConVirt is now ready to be used to manage virtualization platforms.