libvirt and virsh — the virtual machine described in XML

50 min Python 3.12 (Debian, git, pip) Versions libvirt 9 à 11, Debian 13, Ubuntu 24.04, Rocky 9 / RHEL 10

Objective

Stop writing QEMU command lines by hand: describe a VM in an XML file that libvirt can validate, start, stop and restart with the host, and drive all of it with virsh.

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