A web-based QEMU interface

I'm not updating qemu-gui. Check out Proxmox which is a supported and actually functional alternative.

This project is designed to be run on a local server and allows a client to connect and spin up KVM accelerated virtual machines. This program has only very basic support for some features of QEMU. A client can upload ISOs and create raw disk images on the server, and they can configure a virtual machine using these disks. The server also hosts a (very bad) SPICE over WebSockets client. A port can be set so a real SPICE client can be used.

Clone the repository (make sure to use --recurse-submodules to clone the SPICE client).

Run npm run dev to start a development server, or npm start for a production server. If you want a reverse proxy for HTTPS, run node proxy.js instead (this starts a production server on port 5000).

The whole program can be run under a docker container. So just install docker, clone the repo, and add TLS keys and passwords.

First, you'll need to copy your TLS keys to the server. If you're not using Let's Encrypt, you'll also need to edit the Docker Compose file to bind-mount a different path.

Next, create a file called keys.json in the root of the cloned repository that looks something like this:

{
    "key": "Basic abcdefghijklmnop",
    "tls": {
        "key": "/etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem",
        "fullchain": "/etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem",
        "cert": "/etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/cert.pem",
        "cacert": "/etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/chain.pem"
    }
}

Replace abcdefghijklmnop with the Base64 encoding of username:password where username and password are the username and password you wish to use for HTTP authentication. Also, replace the values under tls with paths to the correct TLS keys. You can remove the tls part to disable TLS.

Finally, run sudo docker-compose up to start the server.