virtwold is a daemon which listens for wake-on-LAN (“WOL”) packets, and upon spotting one, tries to start the virtual machine with the associated MAC address.
A use-case is to have a gaming VM that doesn’t need to be running all the time. NVIDIA Gamestream and Moonlight both have the ability to send WOL packets in an attempt to wake an associated system. For “real” hardware, this works great. Unfortunately, for VMs it doesn’t really do anything since there’s no physical NIC snooping for the WOL packet. This daemon attempts to solve that.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/ScottESanDiego/virtwold
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Developer: Scott Ellis
License: BSD 2-Clause “Simplified” License
virtwold is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Wake-on-LAN Tools | |
|---|---|
| UpSnap | Self-hosted wake-on-LAN web application |
| gWakeOnLAN | Small graphical utility that lets you wake up machines |
| Turn On | Small GNOME utility |
| wakeonlan | Perl script |
| virtwold | Wake-on-LAN for libvirt based VMs |
| Awake on Lan | Wake up computers remotely using Wake-on-LAN packets |
| wakey | Manage and wake devices using Wake-on-Lan |
| UPSWake | Sends Wake-on-LAN packets to bring systems back online |
| wol.rs | Wake On LAN magic packet command line tool and crate |
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