DKVM has been my only hypervisor for the last few weeks. My normal workstation has been moved into a VM (xubuntu), and when I feel like gaming - I can fire up my Windows 10 VM.
The boot-up time isn't that bad from a USB stick. As the DKVM OS is using a run-from-ram method, the performance once booted is excellent.
While several improvements has been pushed to my github repository for DKVM, the majority of the work has gone into a new menu-system
I decided to add BASH to my Alpine setup, and build a simple menu-structure using ncurses dialog for BASH.
The menu is far from complete, but currently is a usable state for me.
The add/edit menu options still needs a lot more work, and the internal structure could be a lot better.
The menu simply searches for "dkvm_vmconfig.*" files, and displays a simple menu with the found VMs.
Kernel 4.18.5
As I needed to rebuild the kernel anyway to get HUGETLBFS support, I decided to use the latest stable kernel. The easiest solution for me, was to clone the official AlpineLinux aport repository, and add the modifications to my own fork.
This enables me to easily keep up with the official fixes, while still preserving my own updated kernel with an updated kernel-config optimized for virtualization.
The DKVM buildsystem now has a "stage03" - which is compiling my updated kernel in a chrooted environment.
Build demo
As this is still mainly for my own use, and should be considered to be somewhere in the early alpha/development stages - making sense of the collection of shell-scripts can be troublesome.
So, I decided to record a video of the build-process - in case anyone wants to follow in the same footsteps.
