libvirt ships with virt-install which also allows for quickly creating and auto-installing Windows and many Linux distributions. I haven't tried it with mac. Here's a recent example with Alma Linux: $ virt-install --name alma9 --memory 1536 --vcpus 1 --disk path=$PWD/alma9.img,size=20 --cdrom alma9.iso --unattended Then you go for a coffee, come back and have a fully installed and working Alma Linux VM. To get the li…
Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
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Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
#12libvirt ships with virt-install which also allows for quickly creating and auto-installing Windows and many Linux distributions. I haven't tried it with mac. Here's a recent example with Alma Linux: $ virt-install --name alma9 --memory 1536 --vcpus 1 --disk path=$PWD/alma9.img,size=20 --cdrom alma9.iso --unattended Then you go for a coffee, come back and have a fully installed and working Alma Linux VM. To get the li…
Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
#13I'd want to vet such a thing before I run it, but I also really don't want to read 5000 lines of bash.
Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
#14libvirt ships with virt-install which also allows for quickly creating and auto-installing Windows and many Linux distributions. I haven't tried it with mac. Here's a recent example with Alma Linux: $ virt-install --name alma9 --memory 1536 --vcpus 1 --disk path=$PWD/alma9.img,size=20 --cdrom alma9.iso --unattended Then you go for a coffee, come back and have a fully installed and working Alma Linux VM. To get the li…
Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
#15Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
#16libvirt ships with virt-install which also allows for quickly creating and auto-installing Windows and many Linux distributions. I haven't tried it with mac. Here's a recent example with Alma Linux: $ virt-install --name alma9 --memory 1536 --vcpus 1 --disk path=$PWD/alma9.img,size=20 --cdrom alma9.iso --unattended Then you go for a coffee, come back and have a fully installed and working Alma Linux VM. To get the li…
It is not obvious what the result of this would be. What hostname will it have? How will the disk be partitioned? What packages will be installed? What timezone will be set? What keyboard layout will be set? And so on.
Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
#17Looks interesting but would someone be so kind to point out if there are any advantages for a guy like me who just runs win 11 in VirtualBox under Ubuntu from time to time?
Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
#18Just a security reminder from the last time this got posted[1] This tool downloads random files from the internet, and check their checksum against other random files from the internet. [2] This is not the best security practice. (The right security practice would be to have the gpg keys of the distro developers committed in the repository, and checking all files against these keys) This is not downplaying the effort…
Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
#19It's a QEMU wrapper. I don't know how is this useful. It might save you 2 minutes. Maybe more with windows 11 because of tpm.
As others have said, it's to get past the awful QEMU configuration step. It makes spinning up a VM as easy as VirtualBox (and friends).
Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
#20Just a security reminder from the last time this got posted[1] This tool downloads random files from the internet, and check their checksum against other random files from the internet. [2] This is not the best security practice. (The right security practice would be to have the gpg keys of the distro developers committed in the repository, and checking all files against these keys) This is not downplaying the effort…