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Sane QEMU invocations to quickly launch Ubuntu Core VMs
This snap contains scripts to quickly and easily launch Ubuntu Core virtual
machines using QEMU and KVM.
Usage:
Commands:
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This invocation will only work with UC20 and beyond images. Legacy UC16 and UC18
images are not supported.
Currently, only amd64 EFI images are supported.
Supported snap configuration:
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machines using QEMU and KVM.
Usage:
uc-launch[.command] [--ssh-port <port number>] <ubuntu-core.img>Commands:
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uc-launch - the default invocation-
uc-launch.check - Checks if KVM support is available on the host machine-
uc-launch.no-gui - force terminal only mode, with no virtualized display-
uc-launch.gui - force the use of a virtualized displayThis invocation will only work with UC20 and beyond images. Legacy UC16 and UC18
images are not supported.
Currently, only amd64 EFI images are supported.
Supported snap configuration:
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default.gui - whether or not to use a virtualized display when using the default invocation (uc-image with no additional command). supported options: true,false (defaults to true)-
default.ssh-host-port - the default host port to be forwarded to port 22 on the created VM (defaults to 8022). This can also be overridden on a per-invocation basis with the --ssh-port command line flag.-
smp - the number of CPUs to give the created VMs (defaults to 2)-
mem - the amount of memory to give the created VMs (defaults to 2048)Update History
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