tuhaolam / genvm

"genvm" Is a powerfull script bash to generate a minimal and complete Debian and Ubuntu virtual machines for KVM/QEMU (so usable in ProxMox, libvirtd, ...), VirtualBox and/or VMWare.

GenVM Is a powerful script designed to generate minimum and complete Debian or Ubuntu virtual machines for KVM/QEMU (so usable in ProxMox, libvirtd, ...), VirtualBox and VMWare.

GenVM is distributed under the GPL3.

Sources are available from GitHub (http://github.com/genvm) and documentation is available on http://www.genvm.eu.

Tested distributions

GenVM was tested on Debian Wheezy, Jessie, Stretch, Ubuntu Trusty, Vivid, Wily and Arch Linux.

Generated VM

Distrib.	Name	Rev	Arch
debian	wheezy	7.X	i386
debian	wheezy	7.X	amd64
debian	jessie	8.X	i386
debian	jessie	8.X	amd64
debian	stretch	9.X	i386
debian	stretch	9.X	amd64
ubuntu	precise	12.04	i386
ubuntu	precise	12.04	amd64
ubuntu	trusty	14.04	i386
ubuntu	trusty	14.04	amd64
ubuntu	vivid	15.04	i386
ubuntu	vivid	15.04	amd64
ubuntu	wily	15.10	i386
ubuntu	wily	15.10	amd64
ubuntu	xenial	16.04	i386
ubuntu	xenial	16.04	amd64

Installation

No special installation needed, only download the latest version of GenVM, adjust permissions and launch it via sudo or su.

From sources

$ git clone https://github.com/genvm/genvm.git
Cloning into 'genvm'...
remote: Counting objects: 125, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (45/45), done.
remote: Total 125 (delta 39), reused 123 (delta 39), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (125/125), 44.15 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (39/39), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
$ cd genvm
$ ls
genvm

From archive

Last version (dev)

$ wget -q https://github.com/genvm/genvm/archive/master.zip
$ unzip master.zip
Archive:  master.zip
1d5aa137931b15e6307a0fedb0c30f118c79a959
  creating: genvm-master/
  inflating: genvm-master/genvm      

Stable version

You can find stable versions from GitHub on this page : https://github.com/genvm/genvm/releases

Download the latest version and extract it.

Examples

Consult http://www.genvm.eu for all documentations.

Simple Debian

$ su -c "./genvm debian-stable.vmdk"
Password:
Set password to root > 
Enter new UNIX password: 
Retype new UNIX password: 
passwd: password updated successfully
$ ls -lh debian-stable.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root users 875M Jul 27 17:33 debian-stable.vmdk

Simple Ubuntu

$ su -c "./genvm -b grub-pc -k linux-image-generic \
 -n trusty \
 -S http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ \
 -V trusty ubuntu-trusty.vmdk"

Contact

team at genvm dot eu