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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.