mvidner / vivirt

A simple tool to build libvirt machine descriptions

vivirt

A simple tool to build libvirt machine descriptions

Examples

$ ./vivirt
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<domain type="kvm">
  <name>vivirt-20121204-141220</name>
  <memory>65536</memory>
  <vcpu>1</vcpu>
  <os>
    <type>hvm</type>
  </os>
  <devices>
    <graphics type="vnc" port="-1" autoport="yes"/>
    <serial type="pty">
      <target port="0"/>
    </serial>
    <console type="pty">
      <target type="serial" port="0"/>
    </console>
  </devices>
</domain>

$ NAME=opensuse MEMORY_GB=1 DISK=hd.qcow2 CDROM=opensuse.iso ./vivirt | tee opensuse.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<domain type="kvm">
  <name>opensuse</name>
  <memory>1048576</memory>
  <vcpu>1</vcpu>
  <os>
    <type>hvm</type>
  </os>
  <devices>
    <graphics type="vnc" port="-1" autoport="yes"/>
    <serial type="pty">
      <target port="0"/>
    </serial>
    <console type="pty">
      <target type="serial" port="0"/>
    </console>
    <disk type="file" device="disk">
      <driver name="qemu" type="qcow2"/>
      <source file="hd.qcow2"/>
      <target dev="hda" bus="ide"/>
      <address type="drive" controller="0" bus="1" target="0" unit="0"/>
    </disk>
    <disk type="file" device="cdrom">
      <driver name="qemu" type="raw"/>
      <source file="opensuse.iso"/>
      <target dev="hdc" bus="ide"/>
      <address type="drive" controller="0" bus="1" target="0" unit="0"/>
      <readonly/>
    </disk>
  </devices>
</domain>
$ sudo virsh define opensuse.xml
$ sudo virsh start opensuse

Requirements

• xsltproc (libxslt1.rpm)

Source

Github repo

License

MIT