SartoxSoftware / Virtainer

QEMU script supporting Linux, Windows and macOS guests

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Deprecated

Check out ZigEmu instead.

Virtainer

QEMU script supporting Linux, Windows and macOS guests

History

Originally, I've made MyFastEmulator, which was a fork of the quickemu project meant to expose more configuration options and be faster. However, the code was a mess and I finally abandonned it. Not long after, I decided to start another QEMU script named Virtainer which would be coded from scratch using quickemu's and MyFastEmulator's code.

Features

  • Full support for Linux, Windows and macOS guests
  • Made around the latest QEMU version
  • Very fast and easy to use
  • And more!

NOTE about legacy operating systems

Virtainer, since the April 2021 Update 1, supports Windows 7 and legacy operating systems. However, this option isn't tuned for maximum performance. If you really want to have maximum performance in a legacy OS, please make a new optimize system option for your legacy OS of choice in Virtainer's source code.

Files

run.sh : The classic script, run any type of VM. (Linux, Windows and macOS)
quick-linux.sh : Create a Linux VM quickly with a single command, both config and disk can be either kept or deleted after shutdown.
config-creator.sh : Create a config of any type. (Linux, Windows and macOS)
quick-setup.sh : Simple script to quickly setup a Linux VM within a few minutes (or hours depending on the speed of your internet connection).

Download

git clone https://github.com/NanoSoftwares/Virtainer.git
cd Virtainer

Usage

./config-creator.sh
./run.sh -vm <config>.conf

Quickly creating a (live) Linux config

./quick-linux.sh <iso> <snapshot (on/off)>

Quickly setting up a Linux VM

./quick-setup.sh