Cubic

Cubic is a lightweight command-line manager for virtual machines with focus on simplicity and security.

It has a simple, daemon-less and rootless design. All Cubic virtual machines run isolated in the user context. Cubic is built on top of QEMU, KVM and cloud-init.

Features

• Simple command-line interface

• Supports ArchLinux, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu guest images

• Supports Linux, macOS and Window hosts with amd64 and arm64 architecture

• Supports hardware acceleration with KVM (Linux), Hypervisoer (macOS) and Hyper-V (Windows)

• Daemon-less design which does not require root rights

• Written in Rust

Source Code

The source code of Cubic is on Github.

Getting Started

• Install Cubic

• Create your First Virtual Machine

Reference

• cubic

  • cubic run

  • cubic ls

  • cubic add

  • cubic rm

  • cubic clone

  • cubic rename

  • cubic info

  • cubic config

  • cubic console

  • cubic sh

  • cubic ssh

  • cubic scp

  • cubic start

  • cubic stop

  • cubic restart

  • cubic image

  • cubic mount

  • cubic net