Basic Install ------------- To build virt-manager, run the command: ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make You can then run virt-manager in the source directory with python src/virt-manager.py To install the software into /usr/local (usually), you can then run: make install To build an RPM, you can run: make rpm virt-manager generally requires the latest upstream version of python-virtinst, which checked out with git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/python-virtinst.git If you want to replace your system installed virt-manager version, add --prefix=/usr to ./configure. Please see the INSTALL.autotools file for much more information about install options.