D 2019-10-01T19:32:19.364 L Virtual\sWorkStation P bcb5f29d8631bd08ad60b8294417013a5f82015c U vitus W 2714 Virtual WorkStation (or Vitus Wagner's Spice) is set of script wrappers to QEMU/KVM intened to use on notebooks or developer's workstations, where few virtual machines exist, these machines are seldom created and guest OS configurations are carefully tuned. [./tarball/vws.tar.gz|Download tar.gz] [./uv/vws_0.8-1_all.deb|Download deb]

News

17.jul.2018 Version 0.6 released vws is distributed under terms of [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html|GNU Public License] version 3 or above

Main objectives:

* Virtual machines should be kept as isolated as possible. One should be able to easily move them around, even to the hosts wbere no VWS installed. * Most virtual machines are workstations, which means you need GUI, sound, USB devices etc on them. * Networking is fully controlled by user. * Use of our scripts shouldn't prevent users from operating directly with QEMU command line and monitor. * Script layer should be as thin as possible, readable and understandable by almost anyoune * No new hairy formats should be invented, just a [Concepts|simple conventions] how to store VMs in filesystem to make in operable by scripts and how to put options into shell scripts to make them editable by wizard-like interface * No attempt to support every virtualization technology out there. Concentrate on QEMU and do our best with it.

Current state

Now project reached stage, where [simple scripts] can be easily installed and manage collection of dozens of virtual machines. For more than year it is used to maintain build farm for one big crossplatform project. See [Concepts] for whole picture how to use it. * We support easy interface for creating machine either by attaching installation iso-image and starting installation or by importing existing image. Any format supported by qemu-img (i.e. qemu native formats, vmware or virtial box images) can be used. * There is support for autostart machines, which are started on system boot. * On system shutown it tries to gracefuly shutdown all virtual machines including ones, started interactively. * There is easy way to attach iso image to virtual cdrom * USB devices can be connected to VM either via vws script (on host where machine is running) or via spice client (on the workstation where user is sitting).

Project Phases

# Collect [Useful tips about QEMU] - done, but additions are welcome # Write [simple scripts] - done, but there is always room to perfection # Write [GUI] to control virtual machine though monitor - future # Add [graphic console] to GUI using pygtk spice widget - futire Z f64b33aed188d4aa9b42eb2c7b690a62