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Quickemu
Simple shell script to "manage" Qemu virtual machines.
![Quickemu Screenshot](/Marown/quickemu/media/commit/38307c1c0fc415ea6c81c473f9998b6c70af9002/.github/screenshot.png)
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Introduction
Quickemu is a very simple script to "manage" Qemu virtual machines. Each virtual machine configuration is broadly the same requiring minimal setup. The main objective of the project is to enable quick testing of desktop Linux distributions where the virtual machines can be stored anywhere, such as external USB storage.
Quickemu is opinionated and will attempt to "do the right thing" rather than expose rich configuration options. Quickemu is a frontend to the fully accelerated qemu-virgil. See the video where I explain some of my motivations for creating this script.
Installation
Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu.git
Install the qemu-virgil
snap. You can find details about how to install snapd
and qemu-virgil
on the Snap Store page for qemu-virgil
snap install qemu-virgil
snap connect qemu-virgil:kvm
snap connect qemu-virgil:removable-media
Usage
- Download a .iso image of a Linux distribution
- Create a VM configuration file; for example
ubuntu.conf
iso="/media/$USER/Quickemu/ubuntu/focal-desktop-amd64.iso"
disk_img="/media/$USER/Quickemu/ubuntu/focal-desktop-amd64.qcow2
disk=128G
- Use
quickemu
to start the virtual machine:
./quickemu --vm ubuntu-focal-desktop.conf
Which will output something like this:
Starting /media/martin/Quickemu/ubuntu-focal-desktop.conf
- QEMU: /snap/bin/qemu-virgil v4.2.0
- BIOS: Legacy
- Disk: /media/martin/Quickemu/ubuntu/focal-desktop-amd64.qcow2 (64G)
- ISO: /media/martin/Quickemu/ubuntu/focal-desktop-amd64.iso
- CPU: 4 Core(s)
- RAM: 4G
- UI: sdl
- GL: on
- VIRGL: on
- Display: 1664x936
- smbd: /home/martin will be exported to the guest via smb://10.0.2.4/qemu
- ssh: 22221/tcp is connected. Login via 'ssh user@localhost -p 22221'
Here are the full usage instructions:
Usage
quickemu --vm ubuntu.conf
You can also pass optional parameters
--delete : Delete the disk image.
--efi : Enable EFI BIOS.
--restore : Restore the snapshot.
--snapshot : Create a disk snapshot.
TODO
- Make display configuration more robust
- Improve stdout presentation
- Make disk image optionally size configurable
- Improve snapshot management
- Create desktop launcher for a VM
- Fix Virgil 3D on EFI boot
- Get QEMU
-audiodev
working for audio input, something like: