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This seems awesome! I have a passthrough setup with a very old card and a much newer one for games in a windows vm, it'll be nice to look into getting this set up and I can reduce the power draw on my system which was causing some problems...

Is this something that could work with/be integrated with libvirt for easy configuration? Itd be neat to set it up with my current install, although not at all a real problem.

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We actually are a replacement for Libvirt that tries to simplify a few things. Take a look at LibVF.IO's user API. I tried to make it a bit more human friendly, like Docker: https://github.com/Arc-Compute/libvf.io/blob/master/example/...

Neat! Certainly more readable than the massive xml file! Thanks for the hard work!

E: The code generating the qemu commands is also quite readable, so I think migrating my install will be quite doable + If needs be i can add args manually.

Ya exactly! Compatibility with QEMU commands right inside the yaml was a great addition by my co-author. I wrote an earlier version that lacked that functionality and I have to say the new version with that feature has proven really handy.

I wish all programs would consider YAML config files. Imagine being able to configure Chromium, Firefox, Thunderbird, Windows.. would make automation such a breeze. Chromium and Firefox has policy files but they are all JSON. I'm not even going to talk about the disaster of Windows automation.

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