fuhlig1/libvirt-shell-functions

Bash/Zsh functions used to run clusters of virtual machines on localhost.

Description

Shell functions (Zsh/Bash) to manage clusters of local virtual machines on your workstation.

The following use-cases are supported:

• Setup of a shared NATed network for all virtual machine instances.
• Manage the life cycle of multiple virtual machine instances.
• Data sharing between virtual machine instances and your workstation.
• Enable external access to virtual machine instances with port forwarding.
• Share virtual machine templates among coworkers.
• Snapshot virtual machines and copy backup to remote storage.
• Provisioning of virtual machines with configuration management tool Chef.

We aim for very simple and lightweight code, and very transparent handling of external dependencies like:

• KVM
• LibVirt
• SSH, Rsync, SSHfs
• Chef

Follow the Installation Instructions to prepare your workstation for virtualization. Afterwards continue reading Getting Started.

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Copyright 2011-2013 Victor Penso

Libvirt-Shell-Functions for working with virtual machines.

This is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.