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Feedback on QEMU Functionality in umbrelOS
This issue is for tracking and discussing potential interest in adding more QEMU functionality to umbrelOS. Currently, umbrelOS should have pretty good QEMU integration out-of-the-box, due to it being built on top of debian bookworm. However, @phaus noted a specific use case for a QEMU Guest Agent (https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel-apps/pull/1444), which allows the VM host to retrieve the client’s IP address.
We could explore adding more QEMU functionality to the core OS, but this would depend on there being a strong use-case for it and ensuring that it does not negatively impact users who do not use QEMU.
Would love any feedback or thoughts on this topic, particularly around potential use cases.
Hi there… Since I am the creator of the initial request: Sometimes you already have a running Hypervisor (e.g. proxmox) in your homelab and you would like to don't setup another bare metal system to run umbrel. For that reason it would be great to have reliable support as a VM guest. That allows for example a proper shutdown. Also the IP of the guest (aka umbrel) is known to the hypervisor. My initial approach was to use a docker image, that already packages the original add-ons. Due to the requirement of using system devices, the security has to be widened for this container to work properly. But you could also implement a service, that connectes to the (VM) linux device directly and implements the protocol. I already linked a minimal Go implementation in the original issue: https://github.com/bradfitz/qemu-guest-kragent/blob/main/kragent.go
QEMU guest agent would be awesome.
I am running umbrel on UNRAID as VM to avoid running unnessesary and dedicated Hardware for umbrel.
I am pretty sure there are more users running umbrel as VM.
@pixeldoc2000 you can download it via my custom app store: https://github.com/phaus/app-store there is no real "server part" for it, but the agent itself does work!