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VM Creator using KVM (libvirt)

This is one of my python coding journey in infras project, inspired by terraform libvirt provider. The flows are follow:

supply config.yaml -> vmcreator.py -> launched vm

Development

This script were compiled on top of Arch Linux, python 3.10, libvirt 1:8.10.0-1, cdrtools (genisoimage) 3.02a09-5, qemu-img 7.2.0-1

preqs:

  • genisoimage
  • qemu-img
  • libvirt-python
  • lxml
  • pyyaml

installing:

git clone https://github.com/artemtech/vmcreator
cd vmcreator
#----------------------------
# global install
sudo pip3 install .
#----------------------------
# install for current user only
pip3 install .
export PATH="~/.local/bin:$PATH"
#----------------------------

Usage

vmcreator --help
  • install (deploying) new vm
vmcreator -c config.yaml install
  • update
tbd
  • destroy
vmcreator -c config.yaml destroy

# if with storage
vmcreator -c config.yaml destroy --delete-storage

# if with network
vmcreator -c config.yaml destroy --delete-network

# destroy all
vmcreator -c config.yaml destroy --delete-storage --delete-network