Kimchi Project

Kimchi is an HTML5 based management tool for KVM. It is designed to make it as easy as possible to get started with KVM and create your first guest.

Getting Started

Install Dependencies

$ sudo yum install python-cherrypy python-cheetah \
                   python-imaging python-polib

Install Dependecies for RHEL6

$ sudo yum install python-unittest2 python-ordereddict

Build and Install

$ sudo python setup.py install

Run

$ sudo burnetd --host=0.0.0.0

Usage

Connect your browser to localhost:8000. You should see a screen like:

This shows you the list of running guests including a live screenshot of the guest session. You can use the action buttons to shutdown the guests or connect to the display in a new window.

To create a new guest, click on the "+" button in the upper right corner. In Kimchi, all guest creation is done through templates.

You can view or modify templates by clicking on the Templates link in the top navigation bar.

The template screen looks like:

From this view, you can change the parameters of a template or create a new template using the "+" button in the upper right corner.

Known Issues

Kimchi is still experimental and should not be used in a production environment.

Participating

All patches are sent through our mailing list hosted at Google Groups. More information can be found at:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/project-kimchi

Patches should be sent using git-send-email.

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