Some new features like parallel are handy but require an updated version of fabric. Here is a safe and clean way of installing Fabric in a more Pyhonic fashion. This should also work just fine on other distros that use aptitude or apt-get and this can be an exercise to the reader to figure out how to do this with yum or urpmi.
Fabric is a Python library that allows you to deploy servers over SSH connections. Lets start with a look at the fabfile.py and how to use it. This tool can be used for administration and deployment both big and small.
This is the process to install updated or newer version of virt-manager. Many times you will find that you need a feature that is just not available in the distribution supplied version of virt-manager. Here is a quick install process.
Sometimes, in large organizations, there exists a mess of switches and routers that the network runs on. Some of these devices are embarrassing and others server a single task. Lets imagine a lot of switches and routers laying around with various user names, passwords, and configurations. We can document what we think they should be doing, but like that experiment with the cat in the box, we really don't know until we look.
Updated to remove broken VRF jumphosts. This only worked if the user and pass was the same.
Ever need a list of all the VMs on LIBVIRT systems to paste on your internal Mediawiki? Well here is a short script to do just that and some guides to what you can and can't easily get from the Python LIBVIRT libraries.
