[Sussex] Managing qemu instances

[Nic James Ferrier]

Ronan Chilvers <ronan at thelittledot.com> writes:

> Hi folks
>
> A quick question.  I have a pal who is in the process of learning Linux
> and I'm toying with the idea of setting up a qemu host on a machine at
> home that he can ssh to and play with.  The good thing here is that I
> could use a qcow image, maybe even in snapshot mode and if he messes it
> up, I can rapidly restore his machine.  I'd also like to play around
> with qemu to do some virtual hosting.
>
> My question is, what's the best way to run the qemu instances?  Do I set
> up a script that detachs itself from the console and then fires up each
> instance?  I was thinking of using a ruby script and starting
> ruby threads to spin off each qemu instance (assuming I might have 2 or
> three going - wouldn't be more than that). I obviously don't want to be 
> starting them manually and leaving terminals open.  Anyone got any hints 
> or thoughts on running a set of processes outside a terminal session like 
> this?

I have just built a UML based virtual machine farm.

I use a detached mode gnu-screen to start each UML.


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