spinup
spinup
is a virtual machine manager based on libvirt
.
A few use cases:
-
Launch a VM with default parameters:
$ spinup
-
Launch a VM with 4GiB of RAM and 6 CPUs.
$ spinup 4G 6cpus
-
Launch a CoreOS machine with 2G of RAM:
$ spinup coreos 2G
-
SSH into a machine spun up in the current directory.
$ spinup ssh
-
Launch two machines, naming them
foo
andbar
:$ spinup :foo 2G 2cpus -- :bar 8G 4cpus
-
Set disk size:
$ spinup disk=100G
-
Add two network interfaces, one with a static IP address and one configured for DHCP. For the static IP address to work, a libvirt network must exist for the given IP range.
$ spinup 10.3.0.10/24 dhcp
-
Now ssh into
foo
:$ spinup ssh foo
-
Destroy the cluster in the current directory:
$ spinup destroy
spinup
is at the moment in its very early stages of development. You
might need to do some setting up before it will work correctly on your
computer. The included prepare.sh
script is supposed to help you do
the one-off work you might need.
Dependencies
On Ubuntu, the following packages are needed for installing and
running spinup
. For other distributions, the equivalent packages
should be installed.
qemu-utils
: for theqemu-img
command.libvirt-dev
: dependency of thelibvirt-python
package installed bypip
.libvirt-bin
qemu-kvm
In order to make sure that kvm
is being used, run the kvm-ok
command. You might need to enable either the kvm_amd
or kvm_intel
kernel module. You might also need to enable hardware virtualization
in BIOS.