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# Ideas

* Config option to [disable networking](https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking#How_to_disable_network_completely), passing `-net none`.
* LVM support at `kvmx-create`, with optional LUKS support for the whole volume.
* Additional way to handle missing image on `kvmx up` by spawning `kvmx_install` instead of `kvmx-create`.
* Fix isolinux support:
  * http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Development/Testing
  * http://linux-kernel-driver.blogspot.com.br/2009/06/linux-kernel-development-using.html
  * https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=177299
* Alternative folder sharing support:
  * NFS, SMB.
  * Or even [SSH to a server](https://superuser.com/questions/831659/mount-a-local-directory-to-a-remote-ssh-server)).
* Remount 9p shared folders and reinitialize spice-vdagent upon resume from disk [see possible bug](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1333072).
* [Nested virtualization](http://www.rdoxenham.com/?p=275) ([1](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KVM#Nested_virtualization), [2](https://ladipro.wordpress.com/2017/02/24/running-hyperv-in-kvm-guest/)).
* Integration with [image-bootstrap](https://github.com/hartwork/image-bootstrap).
* Systemd service for a single VM.
* Shell completions.
* Docs (tutorial and manpage).
* Makefile and debian package.
* Patch for spice-client-gtk for menuless windows (spicec usecase).
* Continuous Integration script (kvmx-ci):
  * For schedule jobs (like cron).
  * Pull from remote repository and check source integrity.
  * Automatic VM (re-)creation and/or provisioning.
  * Status report.
* Image resize action, doing something like this, thanks to
  https://ahelpme.com/linux/online-resize-of-a-root-ext4-file-system-increase-the-space/

    # poweroff
    kvmx poweroff $guest

    # resize image
    qemu-img resize `kvmx list_image $guest` +5G

    # power up
    kvmx up $gues

    # resize virtual machine root fs - while the partition is mounted!
    # this parted command currently need to be done manually
    echo resizepart 2 -1 | kvmx ssh $guest sudo parted /dev/vda
    kvmx ssh $guest sudo resize2fs /dev/vda2
    kvmx ssh $guest sudo touch /forcefsck
    kvmx ssh $guest sudo poweroff