This is a simple ruby-wrapper around xhyve, allowing you to start hypervisor Guests on OS-X
You can run a guest fairly easily:
require 'xhyve'
guest = Xhyve::Guest.new(
kernel: 'guest/vmlinuz', # path to vmlinuz
initrd: 'guest/initrd', # path to initrd
cmdline: 'console=tty0', # boot flags to linux
blockdevs: 'loop.img', # path to img files to use as block devs
uuid: 'a-valid-uuid', # a valid UUID
serial: 'com2', # com1 / com2 (maps to ttyS0, ttyS1, etc)
memory: '200M', # amount of memory in M/G
processors: 1, # number of processors
networking: true, # Enable networking? (requires sudo)
acpi: true, # set up acpi? (required for clean shutdown)
)
pid = guest.start # starting the guest spawns an xhyve subprocess, returning the pid
guest.running? # is the guest running?
guest.ip # get the IP of the guest
guest.mac # get MAC address of the guest
guest.stop # stop the guest
guest.destroy # forcefully stop the guest