A lightweight and modular GUI for creating, configuring and running VMs using QEMU via the command line.
The purpose of this project is to be a "middle ground" between the "bureaucratic" ease of Virt Manager for example, and Qemu's own "For experts" command line.
- Visual that matches Gnome, using Font Awesome (not tested in KDE Plasma or Windows)
- Automatic detection of installed QEMU binaries (not tested in Windows, and that probably don't work)
- Support for multiple architectures (Qemu Architectures... not SO Archs)
- Visual editing of hardware parameters:
- CPUs, topology, KVM
- Machine type and memory
- Boot, BIOS and extras (RTC, USB, etc.) and more
- Modular interface separated by pages (Hardware, Storage, Network, etc.)
- Smart caching to speed up loading and parsing
- Direct generation of QEMU arguments (CLI --> GUI) auto populating the respective pages (Hardware, Storage etc)
- Reverse generation of QEMU arguments (GUI --> CLI) auto generating a complete command line args to use with Qemu
- Python 3.8+
- QEMU installed and accessible via terminal
- Python dependencies:
Arch Linux - pacman -S PyQt python-qtawesome <QTVersion Above 5>
Ohters Distros - pip install PyQt qtawesome
| qemu-frontend/
├── app/
│ ├── context/ # Centralized AppContext
│ ├── utils/ # qemu_helper and cache
├── ui/
│ ├── pages/ # Modular frontend pages
│ ├── styles/ # Styles and themes
│ ├── widgets/ # Widgets (Side menu)
├── main.py # Entry point
├── config.json # Persistent configuration file
└── .gitignore
python main.py
- Finish the remaining pages (Network, Audio, Display etc)
- Implement a feature that converts the virt-manager XML lists to command line arguments for Qemu
- ... a lot of others things, the repository is updated daily