QEMU VS k8s-lab-terraform-libvirt

Compare QEMU vs k8s-lab-terraform-libvirt and see what are their differences.

QEMU

Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website. (by qemu)

k8s-lab-terraform-libvirt

A Kubernetes lab environment using terraform and libvirt (by zloeber)
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QEMU k8s-lab-terraform-libvirt
188 2
9,118 36
2.9% -
10.0 0.0
7 days ago almost 4 years ago
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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QEMU

Posts with mentions or reviews of QEMU. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-18.

k8s-lab-terraform-libvirt

Posts with mentions or reviews of k8s-lab-terraform-libvirt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-17.
  • Free materials for CKA – Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam
    5 projects | /r/kubernetes | 17 Jan 2022
  • QEMU Version 6.0.0 Released
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Apr 2021
    https://blog.ruanbekker.com/blog/2020/10/08/using-the-libvir...

    I include the blog link because there is some nuance in how to get the path right for community Terraform providers that aren't in the Hashicorp registry. The documentation on the GitHub project isn't quite up to date with respect to how the latest versions of Terraform expect the plugin paths to be set up.

    I've done this pretty successfully with all the major Linux distros minus Arch, which requires some bootstrapping to get an iso that Packer can work with (no such thing as an answers file for Arch). It's not that big a deal, though. Just find some instructions on how to create and mount a cloud-init iso in addition to the installer iso and use that to add an ssh public key so you can script the installation steps externally. I actually think Packer can do this, but I just haven't gotten it to work yet and have relied on shell scripts.

    Hyper-V actually has a very comprehensive PowerShell module that is pretty well documented, by the way: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/hyper-v/?.... I've found it pretty easy to use and actually got the Arch auto-provision working on Hyper-V in Windows before I got it working in KVM in Linux.

    Another thing is you can just use the cloud images and cloud-init for bootstrapping everything pretty easily, even on-prem. cloud-init has a "no cloud" config option, as mentioned above, where you just mount an iso with the config data as a DVD drive and cloud-init will find it automatically when the distro iso boots.

    This guy has a pretty comprehensive example of how to set up a kubernetes homelab entirely using the libvirt Terraform provider from Ubuntu cloud images bootstrapped with cloud-init: https://github.com/zloeber/k8s-lab-terraform-libvirt

What are some alternatives?

When comparing QEMU and k8s-lab-terraform-libvirt you can also consider the following projects:

UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

TermuxArch - Experience the pleasure of the Linux command prompt in Android, Chromebook, Fire OS and Windows on smartphone, smartTV, tablet and wearable https://termuxarch.github.io/TermuxArch/

Unicorn Engine - Unicorn CPU emulator framework (ARM, AArch64, M68K, Mips, Sparc, PowerPC, RiscV, S390x, TriCore, X86)

Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

xemu - Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development)

em-dosbox - An Emscripten port of DOSBox

virt-manager - Desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt

Packer - Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.

MicroPython - MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems

oVirt - oVirt website

TinyVM - TinyVM is a small, fast, lightweight virtual machine written in pure ANSI C.

podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.