Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian

shellwizard an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Have you tried distrobox/toolbox instead of having to spin up VMs? Also microvm looks nice

happyPersonR 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There used to be virt-manager

Wonder if it’s still around ? Hope it’s doing well !

	▲	MisterTea 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Unfortunately it still exists. Virt manager drives me crazy because it hides the VM files in its own directory with permissions that aren't yours forcing you to use sudo to manually manage your own fucking vm files. Creating a new VM? You're forced to pick an OS by typing the name of your OS into a search box which is tedious and doesnt give you an option for generic x86 machine. I hate it with a burning passion and instead manually manage VMs by reading the qemu man page and writing a script to directly invoke qemu. I'd recommend VirtualBox over it any day.

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zamadatix 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is another area I hope I'm able to migrate to systemd. I already use nspawn for containers but vmspawn is still a bit new and limited in the options. Once it gets there though it'll be nice to have system+containers+vms under one consistent roof.