Continuing to document what everybody else already knows, here's how I've set my development environment up so that I can run the WUI out of my git checkout: * Setup developer appliance so that you can NFS mount your home dir, or generally the directory with a git checkout of oVirt, into it (e.g., following [1] and [2]) * service ovirt-mongrel-rails stop * Edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/ovirt-wui.conf and point the various Alias statements in it to the corresponding places in wui/src/public in your git checkout * Restart httpd * Log into the oVirt appliance as yourself and cd to wui/src > mkdir log/ > mongrel_rails start -d --prefix /ovirt > less -rf log/development.log That's it - you can now edit files in the git checkout on your laptop/workstation, and seeing the effects of an edit requires just a reload of the page. Sometimes, though, you need to kill mongrel and start over. David [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/ovirt-devel/2008-July/msg00203.html [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/ovirt-devel/2008-July/msg00208.html