Qemantra

Qemantra is a command-line tool for creating and managing QEMU Virtual Machines.

QEMU is better and sometimes faster than VirtualBox , but does not have any command-line central managing solution. This tool aims to manage and run your virtual machines using QEMU.

Features

• Create , list and run virtual machines.
• Create configurations to run on demand.
• Use features of QEMU like KVM , multiple architecture support etc.
• Features like UEFI available in a simple flag!

Examples

Running a Virtual Machine

Run a machine with boot menu

Create a Machine

Create a Machine with Disk

Create a Image

Usage

Call qemantra in your terminal.

$ qemantra

Check

Run qemantra check for checking for dependencies and configuration.

Highly recommended before using qemantra!.

Create Machine

The qemantra create-machine subcommand provides functionality to create machines.

Running a machine

The qemantra run subcommand provides functionality to run a virtual machine.

If qemantra run has no arguments , it will execute the last machine which was booted.

The boot options can be either menu which provides a menu to choose between boot devices. Or you can use iso option to directly boot the given iso.

List machines

Use qemantra list to list currently configured machines. Use --verbose option to list more information about the VM(Mem , Cpu etc).

You can list the images managed by qemantra by using --images option to qemantra list.

Installation ?

Currently you can only build from source.You will need Golang installed on your system. As a prerequisite you also need QEMU installed.

Install using go install by running go install github.com/pspiagicw/[email protected].

Roadmap ?

These are the major features planned to be added to qemantra. Other features are welcome to be discussed.

• Running virtual machines
• Creating virtual machines.
• Can use memory and cpu cores.
• Can use iso while running
• Can use different disks while running
• Can use external disk while running
• Can use boot options
• Make a auto install script.
• Add to major repositories(Debian , AUR , Gentoo)
• Support UEFI using OVMF
• Configuration changes using ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
• Multiple architecture support
• Suppport easy clipboard sharing
• Support easy shared folder support
• List currently running machines.
• Control logging functionality(-v / -vv and -vvv)

Motivation ?

Virtualbox is good, but it has a QT interface and it's command line inteface is hectic at best. QEMU has no official (or good) frontend , the command line interface is mature , but has no central managing solution.

Qemantra aims to become a simple and convinient way to manage Virtual Machines. It is designed for the casual Virtualizer.

Contributing

Anybody is welcome to contribute!

Qemantra is written in Golang , so Golang developers can contribute in the technical aspect. If you want to contribute non-technically , then too you are welcome! There are lot's of work in documentation and other aspects! For bugs and feature requests , open a issue.