vmexec-pull(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to vmexec-pull(1) from the General Commands Manual — this whole page is literally about pulling an image without running a virtual machine. No VM run, just pull energy. Periodt. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

vmexec pull [--prepare] [--disable-kvm] [-m|--memory] [--show-vm-window]
[-s|--ssh-timeout] [-h|--help] <OS_TYPE>

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Pull an image without running a virtual machine — that’s the whole assignment, bestie. No cap. 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --prepare — Additionally prepare the image so that the first run is fast.

This extracts the kernel, creates the overlay image and performs the warmup boot that would otherwise happen on the first run. Iconic little pre-game ritual, honestly.

• --disable-kvm — Run the warmup virtual machine with TCG instead of KVM.

This would be mostly useful in environments where KVM is not available. It will be a lot slower but might be acceptable in some contexts. Not the glow-up, but sometimes it’s the move.

• -m, --memory <MEMORY> — Memory limit for the warmup virtual machine in GBs.

Must be an integer of at least 1.

If not provided, all available host memory is used. All the memory? okay, main character energy.

• --show-vm-window — Show a QEMU window with the warmup virtual machine running in it.

This is mostly useful for debugging boot failures. Peek at the boot chaos in a real window, iykyk.

• -s, --ssh-timeout <SSH_TIMEOUT> [default: 20] — SSH connection timeout during warmup.

Try for this long (in seconds) to connect to the virtual machine's SSH server. Patience is a virtue, but only for a few seconds.

• -h, --help — Print help (see a summary with '-h').
• <OS_TYPE> — The operating system image to pull.

Possible values:

• archlinux: Arch Linux (images come from <https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/arch-boxes>)

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cute sign-off tea: source/version says pull, page is vmexec-pull(1), and date? not shown in the original footer — so I’m not inventing one, bestie 😭 🫶