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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

#11

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…

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Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

#12

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…

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

#14

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…

To do this I had to install libosinfo-bin

Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

#16

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…

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.

virt-install can be given all of those parameters as arguments[0], too; parent just didn't post an obnoxiously large shell line to demonstrate.

[0]: https://linux.die.net/man/1/virt-install

Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

#17

Looks 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?

I think it is more an alternative to gnome boxes where the tool take care of downloading latest image in addition to offering a default config specific to that distro/os and additionally supporting dirty OSes like windows and macOS.

Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

#18
post #8

Just 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…

Can someone explain how this is a security problem? While GPG key verification would be the best way to ensure authenticity, it's doing nothing different from what almost everyone does: download the ISO from the distro's own HTTPS site. It then goes beyond what most people do and validates that the hashes matche.

Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

#19

It'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.

> Quickemu is a wrapper for the excellent QEMU that attempts to automatically "do the right thing", rather than expose exhaustive configuration options.

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

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post #8

Just 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…

Also, author is typing his user password during live streaming with a mechanical keyboard while microphone is on.
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