QEMU#
Client#
Use declarative configuration to connect to a server running QEMU
install these packages
apt-get install tigervnc-viewer openssh-client
create the jobs directories. See reference
mkdir -p /home/jobs/scripts/by-user/myuser
follow the instructions from the QEMU server section
create the qvm script in
/home/jobs/scripts/by-user/myuser/qvm.py
create the
configuration file
1# 2# qvm.yaml 3# 4# Copyright (C) 2021 Franco Masotti (franco \D\o\T masotti {-A-T-} tutanota \D\o\T com) 5# 6# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 7# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 8# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or 9# (at your option) any later version. 10# 11# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 12# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 13# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 14# GNU General Public License for more details. 15# 16# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 17# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 18# 19# 20# Original license header: 21# 22# qvm - Trivial management of 64 bit virtual machines with qemu. 23# 24# Written in 2016 by Franco Masotti/frnmst (franco \D\o\T masotti {-A-T-} student \D\o\T unife \D\o\T it) 25# 26# To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all 27# copyright and related and neighboring rights to this software to the public 28# domain worldwide. This software is distributed without any warranty. 29# 30# You should have received a copy of the CC0 Public Domain Dedication along 31# with this software. If not, see 32# <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>. 33 34 35# Note all vnc ports must start from 5900. 36remote: 37 test: 38 enabled: true 39 40 executables: 41 qemu: '/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64' 42 ssh: '/usr/bin/ssh' 43 44 system: 45 46 users: 47 host: 'admin' 48 guest: 'vm' 49 50 # enable VNC otherwise use SSH. 51 display: 52 enabled: true 53 54 network: 55 addresses: 56 host: '192.168.0.1' 57 58 ports: 59 guest: 60 ssh: '2222' 61 host: 62 ssh: '22' 63 vnc: '5900' 64 local: 65 vnc: '5901'
fix the permissions
chown -R myuser:myuser /home/jobs/scripts/by-user/myuser chmod 700 -R /home/jobs/scripts/by-user/myuser
go back to the desktop user
exit
connect to the server via SSH or VNC (see
remote.test.system.display.enabled
option)pushd /home/jobs/scripts/by-user/myuser ./qvm.py ./qvm.yaml remote test
Nota
You can also create a shell alias such as this (works for GNU Bash)
alias test='/home/jobs/scripts/by-user/myuser/qvm.py /home/jobs/scripts/by-user/myuser/qvm.yaml remote test'