LuizRafael79 / qemu-frontend

Simple Qemu frontend, in Python/PyQt for old (but not only) Windows (95. 98, ME, 2k, XP)

QEMU Frontend GUI (PyQt5)

A lightweight and modular GUI for creating, configuring and running VMs using QEMU via the command line.
The purpose of this project is to be a "middle ground" between the "bureaucratic" ease of Virt Manager for example, and Qemu's own "For experts" command line.

🚀 Features

• Visual that matches Gnome, using Font Awesome (not tested in KDE Plasma or Windows)
• Automatic detection of installed QEMU binaries (not tested in Windows, and that probably don't work)
• Support for multiple architectures (Qemu Architectures... not SO Archs)
• Visual editing of hardware parameters:
• CPUs, topology, KVM
• Machine type and memory
• Boot, BIOS and extras (RTC, USB, etc.) and more
• Modular interface separated by pages (Hardware, Storage, Network, etc.)
• Smart caching to speed up loading and parsing
• Direct generation of QEMU arguments (CLI --> GUI) auto populating the respective pages (Hardware, Storage etc)
• Reverse generation of QEMU arguments (GUI --> CLI) auto generating a complete command line args to use with Qemu

🧰 Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• QEMU installed and accessible via terminal
• Python dependencies:

Arch Linux - pacman -S PyQt python-qtawesome <QTVersion Above 5>
Ohters Distros - pip install PyQt qtawesome

⚠️ The project is currently tested mainly on Linux.

📂 Structure

| qemu-frontend/
├── app/
│      ├── context/ # Centralized AppContext
│      ├── utils/ # qemu_helper and cache
├── ui/
│     ├── pages/ # Modular frontend pages
│     ├── styles/ # Styles and themes
│     ├── widgets/ # Widgets (Side menu)
├── main.py # Entry point
├── config.json # Persistent configuration file
└── .gitignore

🖥️ How to run

python main.py

TODO

• Finish the remaining pages (Network, Audio, Display etc)
• Implement a feature that converts the virt-manager XML lists to command line arguments for Qemu
• ... a lot of others things, the repository is updated daily