• Last week, when I was getting to the “here’s where you access your shiny new oVirt-hosted VM” portion of my super duper Up and Running with oVirt howto, I was a bit embarrassed to say that  you needed Fedora to access oVirt’s console-launching automagic. oVirt uses the spice protocol for delivering virtual desktop sessions, and while spice client packages are available for Ubuntu and for openSUSE, I wasn’t able to find any up-to-date packages to provide the Firefox plugin, spice-xpi, that…

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  • NOTE: The most recent version of this howto, for oVirt 4.1, lives HERE. As a fan both of x86 virtualization and of open source software, I long wondered when the “Linux of virtualization” would emerge. Maybe I should say instead, the GNU/Linux of virtualization, because I’m talking about more than just a kernel for virtualization — we’ve had those for a while now, in the forms of Xen and of KVM. Rather, I’ve been looking for the virtualization project that’ll…

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