KW-VM(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

kw-vm — it's the commands to work with QEMU VMs page, section 1 of your manual, bestie 💖

Basically: our girl kw-vm is the whole toolkit for poking at your QEMU virtual machines without losing your mind.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Okay so here's exactly how you call her, no notes:

kw vm (-m | --mount) [--alert=(s | v | (sv | vs) | n)]
kw vm (-n | --umount) [--alert=(s | v | (sv | vs) | n)]
kw vm (-u | --up)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So picture this: devs who use a QEMU Virtual Machine (VM) as their test system are out here typing compound commands to manage all their VM business 😭 like, multiple commands just to do one lil thing? Not the vibe.

And like… with that idea in mind, kw is giving you a whole set of commands that wrap everyday tasks associated with QEMU machines under the vm option 🫶 so you stop doing the most and just let kw handle it. Periodt.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -m, --mount — this mounts the QEMU image into a specific directory, based on the data available in the vm.config file ✨ Notice that the configuration file is the one holding the information about the source image and the destination mount point. She's reading the config, not guessing.

Big note, bestie: only run this command after you turn off your VM. Fr fr. Turn. It. Off. First. 🔥

• -n, --umount — this unmounts the previously mounted QEMU image, based on the parameters available in the vm.config file 💖 What was mounted gets un-mounted, no extra sleuthing required.
• -u, --up — this starts the QEMU VM based on parameters in the vm.config file 👑 VM go up, you go work.
• --alert=(s | v | (sv | vs) | n) — defines the alert behaviour upon the command completion 🌈 like, how loud should she be when she's done?
  • s enables sound notification 🔊
  • v enables visual notification 👀
  • sv or vs enables both 💫
  • n (or any other option) disables notifications — and this is the default 🤫

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and that's the whole page, no cap 💜 the footer is literally just kw-vm - Commands ...ork with QEMU VMs() — same title energy as the top, no version number, no date, just the name echoing back at you like a lil mirror 🪞 iconic, honestly 🎀✨