virtwold – Wake-on-LAN for libvirt based VMs

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

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