$ cubic --help
Cubic is a lightweight command line manager for virtual machines. 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.
Show all supported images:
$ cubic image ls
Create a new virtual machine instance:
$ cubic add mymachine --image ubuntu:noble
List all virtual machine instances:
$ cubic ls
Start an instance:
$ cubic start <instance name>
Stop an instance:
$ cubic stop <instance name>
Open a shell in the instance:
$ cubic ssh <machine name>
Copy a file from the host to the instance:
$ cubic scp <path/to/host/file> <machine>:<path/to/guest/file>
Copy a file from the instance to the hots:
$ cubic scp <machine>:<path/to/guest/file> <path/to/host/file>
Usage: cubic [COMMAND]
Commands:
run Create, start and open a shell in a new virtual machine instance
add Create a new virtual machine instance
ls List all virtual machine instances
rm Delete virtual machine instances
info Get information about an virtual machine instance
console Open the console of an virtual machine instance
ssh Connect to a virtual machine instance with SSH
scp Copy a file from or to a virtual machine instance with SCP
start Start virtual machine instances
stop Stop virtual machine instances
restart Restart virtual machine instances
config Modify virtual machine instance configuration
rename Rename a virtual machine instance
clone Clone a virtual machine instance
image Image subcommands
net Network subcommands
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version