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If only it were more developer-friendly (like Vagrant). Nevertheless, UTM is good.

kashyapc 4y ago
FWIW, if you're comfortable with command-line, here's a way to use QEMU with `virt-builder`[a] and libvirt (the virtualization API): (1) Download a Fedora image (or any one of the images that `virt-builder` supports: `virt-builder --list | less`) $> virt-builder fedora-36 --format qcow2 \ -o vm1.qcow2 --root-password secret (2) Import the image to libvirt: $> sudo virt-install --name vm1 --ram 4096 \ --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/vm1.qcow2,format=qcow2 \ --nographics --os-variant fedora-36 --import Then you can do various operations via `virsh` (the shell tool). Start a VM, and see the boot process on the serial console: $ sudo virsh start --console Create a snapshot: $ sudo virsh snapshot-create-as vm1 snap1 "Clean Fedora 1" With this kind of snapshot (called "internal snapshots"), the original and its delta, i.e. the snapshot, are stored in a single disk image file; this is convenient for moving it across machines. This only works with QCOW2 images. To revert to the snapshot: $ sudo virsh snapshot-revert vm1 snap1 And so on[b]. [a] https://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html https://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html [b] https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tools/virt-builder/about.html https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tools/virt-builder/about...
- koprulusector 4y ago
  Does this work on Mac M1? Last time I tried setting up libvirt/libguestfs on my work Mac M1 I ran into various problems and gave up. This was somewhere around April 2022.
  - rwmj 4y ago
    So .. actually I've been porting libguestfs & guestfs-tools to Mac M1 a couple of weeks ago. I'm intending to write up docs on how to build it, and didn't get around to it, but it will eventually appear here: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/ https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/

FWIW, if you're comfortable with command-line, here's a way to use QEMU with `virt-builder`[a] and libvirt (the virtualization API): (1) Download a Fedora image (or any one of the images that `virt-builder` supports: `virt-builder --list | less`) $> virt-builder fedora-36 --format qcow2 \ -o vm1.qcow2 --root-password secret (2) Import the image to libvirt: $> sudo virt-install --name vm1 --ram 4096 \ --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/vm1.qcow2,format=qcow2 \ --nographics --os-variant fedora-36 --import Then you can do various operations via `virsh` (the shell tool). Start a VM, and see the boot process on the serial console: $ sudo virsh start --console Create a snapshot: $ sudo virsh snapshot-create-as vm1 snap1 "Clean Fedora 1" With this kind of snapshot (called "internal snapshots"), the original and its delta, i.e. the snapshot, are stored in a single disk image file; this is convenient for moving it across machines. This only works with QCOW2 images. To revert to the snapshot: $ sudo virsh snapshot-revert vm1 snap1 And so on[b]. [a] https://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html https://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html [b] https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tools/virt-builder/about.html https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tools/virt-builder/about...

koprulusector 4y ago
Does this work on Mac M1? Last time I tried setting up libvirt/libguestfs on my work Mac M1 I ran into various problems and gave up. This was somewhere around April 2022.
- rwmj 4y ago
  So .. actually I've been porting libguestfs & guestfs-tools to Mac M1 a couple of weeks ago. I'm intending to write up docs on how to build it, and didn't get around to it, but it will eventually appear here: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/ https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/