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howtos:emulators:helper_script_for_managing_qemu_virtual_machines [2016/09/04 20:16 (UTC)] – [Proposed Solution] louigi600howtos:emulators:helper_script_for_managing_qemu_virtual_machines [2023/12/12 08:13 (UTC)] (current) – [Sources] zeebra
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-====== Preface ======+====== Helper script for managing QEMU virtual machines ====== 
 +<!--I took the liberty to fix this headline, if it should have another name, change it  --- //[[wiki:user:zeebra|zeebra]] 2023/12/12 08:11 (UTC)// --> 
 +===== Preface =====
 Qemu is a popular and powerful open-source emulator often used for running KVM Virtual Machines (VMs). In fact qemu supports emulating so many things that it can be quite challenging, unless you do it very often, to manually start a VM from a text console. Who would want to write the below command for starting a VM ? Qemu is a popular and powerful open-source emulator often used for running KVM Virtual Machines (VMs). In fact qemu supports emulating so many things that it can be quite challenging, unless you do it very often, to manually start a VM from a text console. Who would want to write the below command for starting a VM ?
  
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 ===== Basic Configuration ===== ===== Basic Configuration =====
-To get better flexibility to where things are stored it's a good idea to have a basic configuration file that tells the management script there the important things are:+To get better flexibility for configuring where things are stored it's a good idea to have a basic configuration file that tells the management script where the important things are:
   * Path to folder that will contain all the VMs   * Path to folder that will contain all the VMs
   * Path to where the centralized VM configuration DB is   * Path to where the centralized VM configuration DB is

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