Resources: Community

We believe you can derive significantly more strategic value from ConVirt if we give you the means to share experiences, best practices, ideas, tutorials, and technical tips with other ConVirt users, and experience the power of the community. We’ve provided the infrastructure and resources listed here for this purpose. Regardless of whether you plan to contribute code to the ConVirt 2.0 Open Source project, we encourage you to be an active member of the community, and tap into its magic. Since we are an integral part of that community, you get the chance to guide the future of our rapidly evolving product and company, and we get the opportunity to align closely with you, our customers.

Community Forums

You can use the ConVirt community Forums to get help and best practice tips from other ConVirt users, find answers to technical questions, and give feedback that guides ConVirt development.
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Community Wiki

The ConVirt community wiki is a group-editable web site that continues to expand with new topics and information as ConVirt users contribute their experiences and best practices. We encourage you to use this valuable resource.
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Installation Resources

Installing ConVirt is quick and painless. The installation resource page gives you detailed instructions on installing and configuring the ConVirt client as well as preparing servers for remote management.
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Downloads

ConVirt is available as a downloadable source/binary tarball and also as a binary rpm for various distributions. Extremely convenient package repositories are also available for Convirture-certified configurations. ConVirt build packages are hosted on Sourceforge. You may also want to refer to a listing of Convirture-certified configurations and community-tested configurations. We encourage you to download and try ConVirt. Experience for yourself what it is like to monitor all open source virtualization platforms from a single at-a-glance dashboard, uniformly manage pools of servers at one time, optimize virtual machine deployment during provisioning, create and manage provisioning templates and migrate live virtual machines in a few clicks. And more!
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FAQ’s

We share the answers to commonly asked questions here on our FAQ page. If you have a question, you might find it is already answered here.
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HOW TO's

This resource page provides tutorials that walk you through how to accomplish various operations using ConVirt. It gives you step-by-step instructions for tasks you may commonly need. These tutorials are contributed by the ConVirt community as well as by Convirture, and they reflect the best practices of other ConVirt users. The number of tutorials will continue to grow over time, so make sure to check back often! And we encourage you to contribute your own HOW TOs that might be useful to others.
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Product Documentation

Here you will find full product documentation on topics such as using ConVirt to manage multiple servers, using the dashboard for an at-a-glance health check and drill-down management, server and server pool functions, migrating virtual machines, and creating and managing images and appliances.
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Certified Configurations

We certify ConVirt to to manage Xen and KVM running on specified distributions. You can find the full list in our matrix of Convirture-certified configurations. The ConVirt community is successfully using additional configurations; you can find these on the community-contributed wiki page.
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Developer Resources

If you are a developer who wants to extend or enhance ConVirt, this page has resources you will find useful. There is also a developer mailing list you can join if you are interested in staying in touch with other developers on topics related to contributions.
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Mail List

Our mail list is a good way to stay informed and get critical updates and communications from the ConVirt team delivered right into your inbox.
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