Installation¶

Prerequisites¶

VirtUI Manager is a Python-based application that leverages libvirt for virtualization management and textual for its terminal user interface.

System Requirements¶

Operating System: Linux (tested on openSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch)
Python: 3.8+
Virtualization: KVM/QEMU and Libvirt installed and running.
Access: Your user must have permissions to manage libvirt (usually part of the libvirt group).

OpenSUSE / SLE Installation¶

VirtUI Manager is available as a package in the Virtualization repository. Choose the right repository, go to it and download packages and install them.

Repository:
15.6 repo
15.7 repo
16 repo
Slowroll
Tumbleweed
Search for virtui
Download the rpm packages: virtui-manager, virtui-manager-doc, virtui-remote-viewer
install the packages with zypper.

sudo zypper in virtui-*.rpm

Note

You can also add the repository but these means all the packages from this repository will be used later on update of the system, if you dont want that you need to remove it after the installation of the packages.

Installation Steps from Source Code¶

Devel version: Clone the Repository¶

This is possible to test latest version from github

Get the latest source code from GitHub:¶

git clone https://github.com/aginies/virtui-manager.git
cd virtui-manager

Launch the devel version¶

cd src/vmanager
python3 virtui_dev.py

Generic / Virtual Environment (Pip)¶

If your distribution doesn't package these libraries or you prefer a virtual environment:

pip3 install virtui-manager

Now virtui-manager, virtui-manager-cmd, virtui-remote-cmd will be available from Command line.

openSUSE / SLE (Zypper)¶

To install dependencies manually from official repositories (this is done automatically when installing the package):

sudo zypper in libvirt-python python3-textual python3-PyYAML python3-markdown-it-py