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

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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 months ago

My recommendation is to use an abstraction layer that runs qemu-kvm under the hood and automate that. Some people have mentioned libvirt, but Incus is another good option.

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