This is version 0.1
I want to run VMs with custom networking over a bridge.
I want to use ZFS with applicable operating systems like FreeBSD or Linux.
I want more options than UTM can provide.
We'll be using qemu and virt-manager to run setup and run virtual machines on Apple M2 devices.
If you are a Linux user, virt-manager may be familiar. It can be used to connect to multiple KVM hosts over qemu+ssh and is essential in environments with Linux servers running VMs with qemu, libvirt and kvm.
Install Xcode command line tools
xcode-select --install
Install Brew
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Install qemu, libvirt and virt-manager and related useful tools.
brew install qemu libvirt virt-manager tmux wget jq jo bash
Start the libvirt service
brew services start libvirt
Download some isos
mkdir -p ~/Downloads/ISO
cd ~/Downloads/ISO
wget -c https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/13.2/FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso
wget -c https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/22.04/release/ubuntu-22.04.3-live-server-arm64.iso
wget -c https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.3/amd64/install73.iso
wget -c https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/arm64/iso-cd/debian-12.1.0-arm64-netinst.iso
wget -c https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.18/releases/aarch64/alpine-standard-3.18.3-aarch64.iso
Open virt-manager by connecting to local qemu session
virt-manager -c "qemu:///session" --no-fork
(you might want to setup an alias in .zshrc or configure a shell script)
Create a new image. When adding the source ISO, browse to the ~/Downloads/ISO directory.
- bridge networking
- automatic installs