For starters, if you just want to run virt-manager/virt-install to test out
changes, it can be done from the source directory:
./virt-managerFor more details on that, see CONTRIBUTING.md
To install the software into /usr/local (usually), you can do:
meson setup build
meson install -C buildA detailed dependency list can be found in virt-manager.spec.in file.
Minimum version requirements of major components:
- gettext >= 0.19.6
- python >= 3.4
- gtk3 >= 3.22
- libvirt-python >= 0.6.0
- pygobject3 >= 3.31.3
- libosinfo >= 0.2.10
- gtksourceview >= 3
On Debian or Ubuntu based distributions, you need to install the
gobject-introspection bindings for some dependencies like libvirt-glib
and libosinfo. Look for package names that start with 'gir', for example
gir1.2-libosinfo-1.0.
virt-manager can optionally use libguestfs
for inspecting the guests. For this, python-libguestfs >= 1.22 is needed.