What's inside

This project provides containerized client tooling meant for use with the containerized KVM server but will also work with a bare-metal installation of the KVM virtualization stack

• Dockerfile with the definition of the kvm client container currently based on the openSUSE Tumbleweed BCI image.
• kvm-client-wrapper which will function as a wrapper around all installed client tools

Current deployments

For each of the commands below, replace <registry_path> with one of the following:

• registry.opensuse.org/suse/alp/workloads/tumbleweed_containerfiles/suse/alp/workloads/kvm-client - The latest stable release deployed to the SUSE ALP distribution (Default)
• registry.opensuse.org/virtualization/containerfile/suse/alp/workloads/kvm-client - The latest development branch of the kvm client container
• <custom-registry-path> - Path to your OBS home project registry, local registy, or external registry

Installation

# podman container runlabel install <registry_path>:latest

This will pull the container image and will install wrappers around the included executables. If packages are currrently installed that provide a given executable, these will not be touched.

Wrappers for client tools

Once the wrappers for client tools are installed on the host, they will function exactly like bare-metal packages. All wrappers link to an executable named kvm-client-wrapper which will handle passing the program and its arguments into the container.

List current wrappers

# find -L /usr -xtype l -samefile $(command -v kvm-client-wrapper)