vm-start

Description:

script which permit to launch easily some virtual machines via qemu

Dependencies:

• qemu full installation

Functionnality:

• create a config file to stores options for a vm [~]
• start a vm while reading for the conf file [ok]
• create a vm with the ability to choose an iso disk to launch the vm [ok]
• del all sata related to a vm [~ok] (misses deleted conf file)
• create a backup or being able to recall the bacup [ok] (can be improved)
• start directly the backup file [ok]
• can create only the conf file instead of starting/creating vm [ok]
• list all vm already created [ok]
• print help of version number [ok]
• support option nproc to launch the vm with a different number of proc than precised in the config file [ok]
• same for option memory [ok]
• same for option size, size is only usefull when creating a vm [ok]
• can support launching vm in uefi mode [ok] (doesn't fully support the UEFI in conf mode, preffer use the option uefi while launching vm.)
• can add customs options to a vm [ok]
• take option create_disk to know what disk to use when creating a vm. [ok]
• compatible to an extensive network configuration [NO] (actually only support nat with ssh forward on localhost:10022)

Usage:

to get some help;

vm-start --help

to list all vm already configured

vm-start --list

to create a new vm

vm-strart <nom_de_la_vm> create create_disk=<location_of_iso_file>

you can of course add options like uefi to tun in uefi mode, or nproc=<nb_proc> to select a number of processors.

If you go to the conf folder created the first time you launch the script, you will find all configured variables for each of your vm.