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Install Virtual Machine Manager 0.10 via PPA in Ubuntu Linux Mint

Last updated: December 4, 2013

 

Virtual Machine Manager is a desktop interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but also manages Xen and LXC (linux containers). It presents a summary view of running domains, their live performance & resource utilization statistics. Wizards enable the creation of new domains, and configuration & adjustment of a domain’s resource allocation & virtual hardware. An embedded VNC and SPICE client viewer presents a full graphical console to the guest domain.

virt-manager lists vms

Virtual Machine manager is available in Ubuntu universe repository, but it’s a little old. The latest version can be easily installed on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise and Linux Mint via its PPA.

Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:virt-manager/stable

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install virt-manager

After that, start virtual machine manager from menu or Unity Dash.

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    3 responses to Install Virtual Machine Manager 0.10 via PPA in Ubuntu Linux Mint

    1. riccardo May 29, 2014 at 8:45 am

      hi Jim,

      I’ve used your guide to install VMM 0.10 on ubuntu 14.04lts 64bit but that repository is not adapt for this release. Do you know how I can have the last release of VMM on my Ubuntu via PPA. thanks a lot

      • Ji m May 29, 2014 at 10:25 am

        The PPA does not contain the package for Ubuntu 14.04. Follow below steps to install VMM 0.10 in 14.04:

        First remove the previous PPA:

        sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:virt-manager/stable

        Add the new one:

        sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/virtualization

        Finally update and install VMM 0.10:

        sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install virt-manager

        Tip: Because VMM is available in Ubuntu repositories by default, you can always check out the Launchpad page which provides list of Other versions of ‘virt-manager’ in untrusted archives at the end of page.

        • riccardo May 30, 2014 at 8:04 am

          Hi,
          thanks for reply, I’ve made that upgrading the repository but it’s upgrading only the virtinst package, while virt-manager remains the release 0.9.5.