Adds new built-ins and consolidates the raft of tweaks and adjustments to handle all the new Quickemu code
MacOS is now much faster and much improved too. Both in qqX and in with Quickemu.
Lots of details in the Wiki pages ...
- Full desktop control of both Quickemu & Quickget
Quickemu is a simply built front end for Qemu / KVM
- It has an active community and is the only virtual machine manager that makes easy work of Mac and Windows.
Developers are now moving to QEMU
- Quickemu is easier and simpler than the front-ends based on LibVirt.
qqX goes beyond quickemu
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A full menu system offers lots more power and functions.
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The easy installation needs no additional software or dependencies.
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Multiple display modes, utilities, optimizers and tools.
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Works safely alongside other existing installations and fully compatible with the basic stop / go of quickgui
- Easy text translation
Less can be more.
Easy install the latest and greatest.
No need to wait for Quickget to add in the distros or releases that you want.
Start specific VM's straight from the folder
No need to wait for official bug fixes to make their way through the system either. Any new input from the quickemu community activity can be directly accessed and put to work.
Confident Linux users should quickly find themselves at home.
Release 1.1.03 improved the main menu & added a gtk display option, while 1.5.02 now has GL toggle:
Release 1.5.02 added alphabetical zooming into list sections for the Quick Get multi distro menu:
Release 1.7.01 added a choice of 5 menu styles and of Custom Menus 🚀
And 1.7.03 added
- A handy distro rename function to help with upgrades
Release 1.6.02 introduced custom boot parameters and the ability to run Arm64, Risc-V +
Whilst earlier releases have added:
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Distro homepage browser and link checker
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Configuration tune-up wizard
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Screen percentage switching (default & individual)
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Multiple snapshot management, including of shared disks.
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qcow2 repair & resize
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Secondary storage creation
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Progress reporting on distro downloads & zsync iso's.
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Process logging and diagnostics
qqX will work happily alongside quickgui or any quickemu shortcuts. But these are not necessary.
Start from scratch. Or safely test out the qqX difference on your existing quickgui VM's
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If you don't already have a standard Quickemu setup, start by installing that, complete with all its components and all its dependencies, as in the instructions on the quickemu-project pages .
You should be able to type
quickemuat a command prompt and get the quickemu usage screen but from version 1.8 this is not essential.Manual installation of Quickemu to 'PATH' as in the case of some Host distros such as Fedora may now be omitted.
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Download qqX. The latest release is available here. You can also make your first download via the code/clone button. The 'dev' branch may be newer and may have the very latest tweaks and bug fixes too ...
No other software, support structures or dependencies are needed.
See the installer Wiki for more details
Lots available at the qqX wiki pages here
And the Quickemu general forum and chat is available at https://discord.gg/sNmz3uw
Testing has been carried out on a variety of mainstream distros.
All scripts have been carefully Shellcheck linted & have full error handling routines.
qqX always makes backups, as is standard good practice with any software.
See FreeBird for details on the built-ins
See Change Log for a history synopsis
Quickemu uses simple Bash scripts. Much easier for community contributions. Much easier to edit and easy to fix.
Any confident Linux user should find it relatively easy to make simple edits.
Learning Bash, or improving your knowledge of it, is always time well spent. Bash is a flexible language of which all Linux users should know at least a little.
qqX uses the same well-known scripting language that is used by quickemu. Anything can be easily taken, shaped and improved.
There are none of steep learning curves that are often involved with GUI's or compiled low level languages such as Rust or C.
The qqX coding style is clear and annotated sufficiently for newcomers to find their feet.
Even with newer and initially simple LibVirt front-ends, like Gnome Boxes for example, doing something basic like moving the VM folder contains a whole learning curve. Forget anything much more.
See the specific wiki for more details
More technically speaking qqX runs in a 'terminal emulator' and can also run with Wayland display systems as well as with 'X'
But traditionally Linux uses the X window system from X.org, so 'X term' often gets used as shorthand ...