Kymano

Kymano is a platform for delivering virtual machines. Kymano uses yml-configs to describe VMs. It works on MacOS, Linux, Windows.

Stability

Kymano is very young project and can be very unstable, but we work hard to improve it.

Commands

Import data from Parallels / VirtualBox / VMware / Hyper-v

1. Convert disk to the qcow2 format

npx kymano convert /path_to_the_vm_disk

Howto find the Parallels / VirtualBox / VMware / Hyper-v disk

2. Add converted disk as an additional drive:

npx kymano run fedora --drive /path_to_the_vm_disk.qcow2

Instead of 'fedora' you can specify needed operation system.

Run the fedora VM

npx kymano run fedora

Full list avaliable alises can be found https://github.com/kymano-app/repo/blob/master/cli_aliases.yml

Run VM from a github repo

npx kymano run kymano-app/fedora/fedora35-workstation

Will download https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kymano-app/fedora/master/fedora35-workstation-arm64/0.1.yml or https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kymano-app/fedora/master/fedora35-workstation-x86_64/0.1.yml

Run VM from an url

npx kymano run http://kymano.app/fedora35-workstation

Run VM from local config

npx kymano run ./path_to_the_config

Run with different arch

npx kymano run fedora --platform arm64

List VM

npx kymano ps

Export VM

npx kymano export fedora-1

Will be created fedora-1.tgz

Import exported VM

npx kymano import fedora-1.tgz

Shared directory

npx kymano run fedora -v /path_to_the_directory:/path_in_the_VM

Instruction for Mac-hosts

Remove VM disk

npx kymano rm vm_name/drive_name

For VM creators

This commands you will need if you decide to create your images.

Commit your layer

npx kymano commit vm_name/drive_name