Installation

Install Operating System

  • MCVirt is currently built to support Ubuntu 14.04 with native versions of dependencies.
  • When installing the operating system, create the following logical volumes:
    • Root - Create a 50GB partition using ext4. This is used for the operating system, MCVirt configurations and ISO images
    • SWAP - leave the suggested SWAP volume unaltered
  • Virtual machine storage will be created as additional volumes in the volume group.

Building the package

  • Ensure the build dependencies are installed: dpkg, python-docutils
  • Clone the repository with: git clone https://github.com/ITDevLtd/MCVirt
  • From within the root of the working copy, run build.sh

Installing Package

To install the package, run:

$ sudo dpkg -i mcvirt_X.XX_all.deb
$ sudo apt-get -f install

MCVirt uses a customised version of Pyro, which can be installed by running:

$ git clone https://github.com/MatthewJohn/Pyro4
$ cd Pyro4
$ sudo pip install .

You may need to install pip by running sudo apt-get install python-pip.