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How to Automate QEMU/KVM VM Deployments? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by dudesss@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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I'm looking to use KVM/QEMU on my Linux computer.

Are there scripts that help me automate deploying the same VM builds I've done before -- with the same RAM, HDD, networking, etc.. settings.

I've found the following but I'm not sure if there are better options:

https://github.com/doccaz/kvm-scripts

Would Ansible be a better option for this?

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[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have you used ovirt? It's currently being maintained by Oracle after Red Hat gave it up.

I've been meaning to try it, but the documentation is dense and hard to get through, and I unironically find the openstack install instructions more approachable in some ways...

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It has been 7 or 8 years since I touched it, but yes. I extended some intern-built VMware automation to ovirt so we could validate KVM images and reduce VMware costs for internal dev and because that was the platform the manager decided on. We initially only dedicated 6U or 8U to it.

In general, I'd say it worked just fine and the python sdk was approachable. It wouldn't be my first choice knowing it's Oracle Virtualization now, but that's a moral stance instead of technical.

As for maintaining it long term, I can't really say. I left that team to go play in the clouds with terraform and kubernetes. But I also haven't heard anything negative from that team since (and I'm still friends with one of the system engineers who is responsible for it). And there was a much needed fundamental rewrite of the bits I original extended that continued with ovirt that went smoothly.