The idea is to use a small and simple config file, which will be expanded by the ezkvm app into a call to qemu with the appropriate arguments. It is assumed that things like network, firewall and dhcp daemons are already setup, and so ezkvm only needs to start the qemu process. By default it will setup a monitor pipe, so that you can connect to the qemu monitor to do some advanced administration, either manually, or through a helper tool (I may extend the tool in the future to make some of those administration tasks more user friendly).
The syntax is still much in flux, and meanwhile I would like to use StrictYAML however there does not seem to be a good parser crate for rust yet. So for now I'm using the serde-yaml parser, but restrict the config file to not use advanced yaml features.
Some examples can be found in etc directory:
- This is VM based on my company desktop vm, it runs fine and responsive using virtio-vga-gl, and remote-viewer, but does seem to use a bit more cpu cycles than my current ubuntu oriole desktop (see below).
- This is a config file that i derived from my proxmox windows 11 gaming VM, it is configured with GPU passthrough and looking-glass as viewer, and with the current ezkvm in combination with this config file, i can run that VM just fine from my EndeavourOS Gemini installation.
- This works fine with the same settings as my windows 11 desktop settings, but for the sake of showing some diversity, it is configured with the gtk client here. I have also run opensuse tumbleweed with the same settings just fine.
- A macos example, but as of yet untested. I have yet to try this on my laptop, but the basics should be in place for this to work.
To start the qemu VM, it should suffice to run ezkvm --start <configfile>.