qvm/README.md

# qvm
Trivial management of 64 bit virtual machines with qemu.

# What this script will do
It can handle:
- Virtual hard disk creation, backup and deletion.
- Basic network management: two ports are exposed to the host
  machine (but you can add as many as you want). One of these 
  two ports is SSH (so admin gets simpler).
- Shared directory between host and guest.
- Last, but not least, running the virtual machine with all
  these options.

# Setup information and usage
- You need a 64 bit machine.
- Modify `configvmrc` based on your needs.
  Variables are self-explanatory and I have kept mine 
  as an example.

```
# pacman -S qemu
$ . ./configvmrc
$ mkdir -p "$shared_data_path"
$ ./qvm -i
$ ./qvm -b
```

- Now you can run the virtual machine:
```
$ ./qvm -r
```

- On your guest machine add the following in `/etc/fstab`:
```
host_share   /home/vm/shared    9p      trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L   0 0
```
This will enable the shared directory automatically (no mount commands of any 
sort).

- You can connect to your virtual machine via SSH, using the default values:
```
ssh -p 2222 <guest_user_name>@127.0.0.1
```

# License
CC0.