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# README
qq2clone is a linux tool to simplify creating and managing copy-on-write clones of template QEMU/KVM virtual machines. It can perform batch operations in case you are working with multiple clones. For much more information, there is a markdown version of the manual page you can read above ([man.md](https://git.j-g-web.com/jesse/qq2clone/src/branch/master/man.md)).
qq2clone is a linux tool to simplify creating and managing copy-on-write clones of template QEMU/KVM virtual machines. It can perform batch operations in case you are working with multiple clones. There is a version of the manual page you can read online above ([man.md](https://git.j-g-web.com/jesse/qq2clone/src/branch/master/man.md)).
qq2clone has these dependences:
* virsh (qq2clone has started the transition to use the libvirt API directly, this will not remain a dependency forever)
* virsh (qq2clone has started transitioning to use the libvirt API directly, this will not remain a dependency forever)
* Bash 4.0+
* sqlite3
* xmllint (from libxml2)
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# FAQ
## Is this really 3000 lines of Bash? In 2021?!
## How do I use this thing?
Yep! I am aware that more popular, modern scripting languages like Python exist, but Bash is more than sufficiently capable for a project of this nature. The reason I chose it specifically was as an opportunity to further develop my Bash skills. Similarly, the lv_api_do helper application is written in C rather than Python (for which libvirt API bindings exist) because I hadn't written any C in a long time and it was an opportunity to re-familiarize myself with the language.
The [manual](https://git.j-g-web.com/jesse/qq2clone/src/branch/master/man.md) is quite detailed, and there is an [examples](https://git.j-g-web.com/jesse/qq2clone/src/branch/master/man.md#examples) section that may be helpful.
# EXAMPLES
## Why use Bash and C when this could all be written in Python?
TODO: I will flesh out this section later, for now check out the examples section in man.md
Just to improve my Bash skills and gain a tiny bit of familiarity with C. Writing this in Python would certainly have been easier.