vm-curator: a TUI alternative to virt-manager with working NVIDIA 3D para-virtualization!

[mroboff]

I've long wanted to harness QEMU/KVM for my desktop virtual machines, but I've been befuddled by virt-manager's lack of support for working nvidia 3D acceleration, dogmatic embrace of ugly XML, and the puzzling UI decision of having to click what seems like 15 buttons to attach an ISO to a VM image. When I further learned that NVIDIA's broken 3D acceleration is the fault of libvirt as opposed to QEMU's virtio driver, I had an idea...

vm-curator is a fast and friendly vm management TUI written in Rust. You can create, configure, organize, and manage VMs directly with QEMU. No libvert. No XML. No wonky UI's. Just the right level of friendliness, customization, and speed to be really, really useful.

The best part? 3D para-virtualization works with NVIDIA cards (via virtio-vga-gl!) No jumping through hoops to get GPU pass-through working!

(Disclaimer: This works great with other guest Linux VMs, but is not suitable for Windows gaming. If you want to game on Windows within a VM, passthrough is a must. vm-curator will have fast and friendly support soon.)

Looking for contributors (especially to help with the ascii art,) and donations are welcome. (Claude was a big help, but this was not a vibe-coded affair. We pair-programmed approx. 10,000 lines of code here. It was a great way to learn Rust, actually!)

I would be happy to see this offered via the Omarchy Install menu. There is a gap there for desktop virtualization management. If there is interest in this, just let me know how I can help get it done!