Using oVirt Node with virt-manager

Virtualization is already an ubiquitous technique.
Fedora provides packages for many of the Linux virtualization components through the yum virtualization group.

$ sudo yum groupinstall virtualization

Well, anyway - When doing virtualization you need a host, hosting your virtualized guests. If you don't want to do this on your local machine - because it hasn't got the capabilities, isn't beefy enough, ... - you can use oVirt Node as a hypervisor on a second machine which you can easily manage from Fedora using virt-manager.
This can be useful for a small working group or developers.

oVirt Node is based on Fedora and optimized to quickly get a hypervisor up an running. You actually do not need to care about all the constraints - networking, services, storage, ... - you need to consider if you setup a hypervisor yourself (which can also be done with  Fedora). It is also stripped down (~150MB) to preserve most of the RAM and storage space to the virtualized guests.

Anyhow:

1. Download oVirt Node
2. Install it on a machine with a recent Intel or AMD processor
3. Log into the installed Node using admin and
1. Configure a network interface
2. Press F2 to drop to the console and run
3. /usr/libexec/ovirt-config-password 
1. set a root password
2. enable SSH access
4. Optional: ssh-copy-id your ssh key to node to allow a password-less login
5. User virt-manager to create a new connection (File -> New Connection) to the installed Node (IP can be found on the Node's Status page)
   URI: qemu+ssh://$OVIRTNODE/system

($OVIRTNODE needs to replaced accordingly)
Actually oVirt Node is intended to be used with oVirt Engine, which can manage from one up to a couple of hundreds (?) of Nodes.
But the Engine setup itself is not as easy as just using virt-manager :)
At least - Engine would be the next step to get used to the oVirt components.

P.s.: You can use virsh vol-upload to get some data onto the node.

Booting Fedora using Qemu and EFI

Thanks Harald.
After reading accross Harald's blog post mentioned above, I tried to boot one of the recent Fedora 17 composes. Sadly Qemu refused to find the attached (emulated) CD drive, but passing my primary hda (as a snapshot) worked like a charm: Fedora 16 ran in qemu with an EFI bios (OVMF).

Auto-Installing oVirt Node

oVirt - maybe you've heard about it. It's a project to create an open IaaS "virtualization management system" - So a bit like OpenStack, but different.
Fedora is the base for oVirt's hypervisor: "Node". Basicaly this is a stripped down Fedora, enriched with a couple of packages to prvide just enough to host some virtual guests and do some basic configuration.

Personally I'd like to use Node in conjunction with Gnome Boxes or virt-manager. But this is currently not possible - but we might get closer to it when solving this bug.
Anyhow, to quickly install oVirt Node you just need to add two (or three) additional kernel arguments:

BOOTIF=ethX storage_init

You should/could also add

adminpw=$ADMINPW

ADMINPW=$(openssl passwd -salt SALT) is a salted password, so you can log in (as admin) after the installation. Alternatively you can boot into single mode to reset the password.

The parameters above install oVirt node without user intervention,  setup networking on ethX and erase all data on the disk and create a defautl (lvm based) partitioning scheme.
The next step would be adding Node to oVirt Engine - or wait until it can be managed by virt-manager, which is much quicker to set-up :)