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 invocation
• uc-launch.check - Checks if KVM support is available on the host machine
• uc-launch.no-gui - force terminal only mode, with no virtualized display
• uc-launch.gui - force the use of a virtualized display

This 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)