I got tired of libvirt XML and Vagrant’s Ruby/reload dance for single-host VM stacks, so I built a compose-style runtime directly on QEMU/KVM. What’s there: GPU passthrough as a first-class primitive (VFIO, OVMF, per-instance EFI vars), healthchecks that gate depends_on over SSH, socket-multicast L2 between VMs with no root and no bridge config, cloud-init wired through the YAML, Dockerfile support for provisioning. What it’s not: Kubernetes. No clustering, no live migration, no control plane. Single host. Prototype, but I’m running it on real hardware. Curious what breaks for people.

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