How to install Kimchi KVM Web management

Guide to install Kimchi

![Screenshot of the Kimchi]({{ site.url }}/images/kimchi.PNG) I am trying to find centralized kvm management system for testing different linux distros. I think I found lastly suitable fo my needs.

Kimchi is an HTML5 management interface for KVM virtualization.

This is simplified guide to install kimchi system to fresh Ubuntu server install.

For more info check: https://kimchi-project.github.io/kimchi/downloads/

First update&upgrade your Ubuntu and install some depencies.

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install python-cherrypy3 python-jsonschema python-m2crypto nginx python-ldap python-psutil fonts-font-awesome texlive-fonts-extra python-configobj python-parted sosreport python-imaging websockify novnc nfs-common python-ethtool open-iscsi python-guestfs libguestfs-tools spice-html5 python-paramiko

Download the .deb pakages

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wget http://kimchi-project.github.io/wok/downloads/wok-2.2.0-0.noarch.deb
wget http://kimchi-project.github.io/gingerbase/downloads/ginger-base-2.2.0-0.noarch.deb
wget http://kimchi-project.github.io/kimchi/downloads/kimchi-2.2.0-0.noarch.deb

Firstly install some depencies and the wok

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sudo apt-get install python-cheetah gettext python-pam
sudo dpkg --install wok-2.2.0-0.noarch.deb

Then Install python-apt pakage and ginger-base

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sudo apt-get install python-apt
sudo dpkg --install ginger-base-2.2.0-0.noarch.deb

Lastly install depencies and the kimchi pakage

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sudo apt-get install python-libvirt libvirt-bin qemu-kvm  python-ipaddr python-magic
sudo dpkg --install kimchi-2.2.0-0.noarch.deb

Then reload daemon and start the wok service

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systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl restart wokd
systemctl status wokd
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