{"id":290,"date":"2015-09-07T16:28:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T16:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlinelab.info\/?p=290"},"modified":"2015-09-07T16:28:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T16:28:29","slug":"manage-kvm-qemu-with-kimchi-web-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asianux.org.vn\/index.php\/2015\/09\/07\/manage-kvm-qemu-with-kimchi-web-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Manage KVM (QEMU) with Kimchi (web interface)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kimchi<\/p>\n

Kimchi is a HTML5 based web interface for KVM. It is provides easy and flexible interface to create and manage a guest virtual machines. Kimchi is installed and runs as a daemon on the KVM host. It manages KVM guests with the help of libvirt. Kimchi interface supports all latest version of the browsers with -1 version, it also supports mobile browsers.<\/p>\n

Kimchi can be installed on latest version of RHEL, Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu. In this guide, i used Ubuntu 14.10 as a KVM host.<\/p>\n

Before configuring kimchi, you must install the following dependent packages.<\/p>\n

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$ sudo apt-get install gcc make autoconf automake gettext git python-cherrypy3 python-cheetah python-libvirt\u00a0 libvirt-bin python-imaging python-pam python-m2crypto python-jsonschema qemu-kvm libtool python-psutil python-ethtool\u00a0 sosreport python-ipaddr python-ldap python-lxml nfs-common open-iscsi lvm2 xsltproc\u00a0 python-parted nginx firewalld python-guestfs libguestfs-tools python-requests websockify novnc spice-html5 wget<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
System would ask you the following details during the installation of packages.<\/p>\n
1. OK on Postfix configuration.<\/p>\n
2. Select Internet Site on general type of mail configuration.<\/p>\n
3. Type your FQDN and then select OK.<\/p>\n
Once installed, download the latest version of kimchi from github.<\/p>\n
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 $ wget https:\/\/github.com\/kimchi-project\/kimchi\/archive\/master.zip<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
Unzip the downloaded file.<\/p>\n
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$ unzip master.zip\n$ cd kimchi-master\/<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
Build kimchi using the following command.<\/p>\n
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$ .\/autogen.sh --system<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
Install.<\/p>\n
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$ make\n$ sudo make install\u00a0\u00a0 # Optional if running from the source tree<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
Run kimchi.<\/p>\n
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 $ sudo kimchid --host=0.0.0.0<\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
Access kimchi using web browser, https:\/\/localhost:8001. You would be asked to login, use your system credential which you normally use for login to system.<\/p>\n
\"Kimchi
Kimchi Login Page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Once you logged in, you will get a page like below. This show the list of running guest virtual machines on current host, you have buttons to perform shutdown, restart and connect to console by clicking on action.<\/p>\n
\"Kimchi
Kimchi guest virtual machines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
To create a new guest machine, click on the + sign in the right corner. If you use this option to create a machine, it will be done through templates.<\/p>\n
\"Kimchi
Kimchi Creating Virtual Machine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
You can manage templates by visiting templates menu. To create a new template, click on the + sign in the right corner. You can create a template using ISO images, you can place iso images on \/var\/lib\/kimchi\/isos or use remote one.<\/p>\n
\"Kimchi
Kimchi Creating Template<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
You can manage storage pool by going to storage menu, there you can add a new storage by clicking on + sign. It supports adding NFS, iSCSI and SCSI fibre channel storage.<\/p>\n
\"Kimchi
Kimchi Storage Management<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Network can be managed by going to network menu, you can create a new network with isolated, NAT and bridged networking.<\/p>\n
\"Kimchi
Kimchi Networking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
That\u2019s All.<\/p>\n
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