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.