virt-manager VS quickemu

libvirt is a C library developped by RedHat under the terms of the GNU LGPL license, that provides a generic API that abstracts the bits and bytes of the underlying hypervisor, networking and storage technologies. Using libvirt generic API permits to benefit from a large ecosystem of open source software and tools. As an example, it is possible to use the virt-manager client to create and manage virtual machines. It supports a wide range of hypervisors including Xen via the libxl driver, KVM, BHyve, Hyper-V and storage backends, including ZFS.

# https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/issues/445

There's also virt-install, which is part of the Virt Manager package. https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/blob/main/man/v...

  curl --output-dir $HOME/.local/share/libvirt/images/ -LO https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/bookworm/20240507-1740/debian-12-genericcloud-arm64-20240507-1740.qcow2

It's still being updated. I don't see anything on the virt-manager homepage or GitHub that would suggest it is deprecated.

https://virt-manager.org/

https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager

It can't do literally everything Qemu/libvirt can do using only the UI, but given that it has escape hatches to directly edit libvirt configurations, and libvirt has escape hatches to directly pass arguments to Qemu, there's very little you can't do with it.

I would love to see a serious comparison (features & performance) between VMWare ESXi, Proxmox VE and let's say a more stock RHEL or Ubuntu. And maybe even include FreeBSD/bhyve.

Because yes, in terms of core functionality it should be in the same ballpark. And in terms of UI, Virtual Machine Manager [0] was not that bad.

[0] https://virt-manager.org/

Shout out to https://virt-manager.org/ - works much better for me, supports running qemu on remote systems via ssh. I used to use this all the time for managing bunches of disparate vm hosts and local vms.

If not, I would just run a CentOS Stream 8 virtual machine using either GNOME Boxes or virt-manager, and set up networking and ssh so you can access the database from the host.

https://virt-manager.org/ <- Recommend this as Front-end

I'd say it is half-baked webmin. You can only use it with NetworkManager, and if you have an even remotely complex network setup for VMs, NetworkManager usually must be turned off, which makes Cockpit practically unusable. virt-manager [1] is way more powerful for those who like managing VMs with GUI.

[1] https://virt-manager.org/

quickemu [1] is good at running macOS VMs.

1: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

there is quickemu which can install mac vm on linux (or any other host) rather quickly, what are your thoughts on it (I am an absolute quickemu shill because I love that software)

https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu [ Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines ]

I really like the product created by fly.io's https://sprites.dev/ for AI's sandboxes effectively. I feel like its really apt here (not sponsored lmao wish I was)

Oh btw if someone wants to run servers via qemu, I highly recommend quickemu. It provides default ssh access,sshfs, vnc,spice and all such ports to just your local device of course and also allows one to install debian or any distro (out of many many distros) using quickget.

Its really intuitive for what its worth, definitely worth a try https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

I personally really like zed with ssh open remote. I can always open up terminals in it and use claude code or opencode or any and they provide AI as well (I dont use much AI this way, I make simple scripts for myself so I just copy paste for free from the websites) but I can recommend zed for what its worth as well.

It's fixed in https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/pull/1640 but they haven't cut a release since Dec 2024.

quickemu: It doesn't support automated installations

https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

Tl;Dr use quickemu: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

There's also quickgui to help with launching VMs: https://github.com/quickgui/quickgui

(I've been using it for annual chores on windows)

[2] https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/blob/0c8e1a5205...