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* COMMENT -*- mode: org -*-
#+Date: 2015-11-03
Time-stamp: <2015-12-31>
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* make it easy to boot KVM VM on localhost.
User don't have to specify storage and config network themselves.

project code name: quickvm
cli: qvm

* Usage
print command to install dependencies, ask user to upgrade kernel maybe.
qvm install-deps

boot a VM with NAT network.
qvm --core 4 --ram 2g --disk 20g

boot a VM using existing tap device.
qvm [--network tap0] ...

choosing base OS image
qvm [--image ubuntu-12.04-x64] ...
// will download this from DFS or re-use local cache, then clone a new disk
image based on it.

qvm [--image /path/to/xxx] ...
// clone root disk from given image.

specify VM name
qvm [--name foo] ...

Note: qvm requires root permission to create new dir/files and define new
domain.

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* Configuration
image_service.type = DFS
image_service.url = http://xxx:xxx/

#image_service.type = ceph
#image_service.url = http://xxx:xxx/

image.default = u1204x64

* qvm data directories
- qvm data directories stores disk image and domain xml file.

  /data/qvm/images/
  /data/qvm/images/cirros-0.3.4-x86_64-disk.img
  /data/qvm/instances/
  /data/qvm/instances/vm1/disk
  /data/qvm/instances/vm1/domain.xml

  Auto create these dir in "qvm init" step if they do not exist.