Get oVirt

Install oVirt Engine from the stable Fedora 16 x86_64 packages:

oVirt is comprised of a management server and one or more hypervisor nodes.

1. Add the oVirt Fedora 16 Stable yum repository
   sudo wget www.ovirt.org/releases/stable/fedora/16/ovirt-engine.repo -P /etc/yum.repos.d/
2. Install oVirt Engine packages
   sudo yum install -y ovirt-engine
3. Run oVirt Engine setup script
   sudo engine-setup 
4. Download and install an oVirt Node image on an Intel-VT or AMD-V capable host, and/or install VDSM on the oVirt Engine server.
5. Consult the oVirt Installation guide for more information on Installing and Configuring an oVirt Environment.

If you would like to build and run oVirt from source, oVirt 3.0 tarballs are available here, and information on how to build oVirt from source is here.

For links to the GIT repos, issue trackers, and mailing lists for each oVirt subproject, refer to the project page.

Distribution-specific work/instructions

• Debian: www.ovirt.org/wiki/Ovirt_build_on_debian/ubuntu
• Gentoo: wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OVirt

What is the oVirt Architecture?

The resources page has presentations that explain this in detail.