This snap contains scripts to quickly and easily launch Ubuntu Core virtual machines using QEMU and KVM.
Usage: uc-launch[.command] [--ssh-port <port number>] <ubuntu-core.img>
Commands:
uc-launch - the default invocationuc-launch.check - Checks if KVM support is available on the host machineuc-launch.no-gui - force terminal only mode, with no virtualized displayuc-launch.gui - force the use of a virtualized displayThis invocation will only work with UC20 and beyond images. Legacy UC16 and UC18 images are not supported.
Currently, only amd64 EFI images are supported.
Supported snap configuration:
default.gui - whether or not to use a virtualized display when using the default invocation (uc-image with no additional command). supported options: true,false (defaults to true)default.ssh-host-port - the default host port to be forwarded to port 22 on the created VM (defaults to 8022). This can also be overridden on a per-invocation basis with the --ssh-port command line flag.smp - the number of CPUs to give the created VMs (defaults to 2)mem - the amount of memory to give the created VMs (defaults to 2048)Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
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On Debian 9 (Stretch) and newer, snap can be installed directly from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
After this, install the snapd snap in order to get the latest snapd:
sudo snap install snapd
To install uc-launch, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install uc-launch
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