Settings

Choose File › Settings, or press Ctrl+P. The window has a page for each place where settings are kept, and a line at the top of each page says where. Each setting has a line that says what it does.

The windows of another Virtualbricks, opened with virtualbricks --connect, have a third page, for the computer where the bricks run; see Another computer.

Every setting of the files is in virtualbricks-config(5).

This computer

The settings of this computer, for every project, in ~/.config/virtualbricks/settings.toml:

Terminal

The terminal that opens the consoles of the bricks, as a command line: {command} is the console, and {name} the name of the brick. The menu offers the terminals of this computer, each in the form it takes, as gnome-terminal -- {command}. Another is typed with its options: xterm -T {name} -hold -e {command} names the window after the brick and keeps it open once the console ends. A terminal without {command} gets -e {command} after it.

Tray icon

An icon in the system tray.

Missing programs

A warning at start about the programs Virtualbricks can't find.

Share memory (KSM)

Share equal memory pages between machines, with the KSM of Linux. It turns on or off when you click OK, through sudo; if it can't, the window stays open on it, and says why.

Audio driver

The driver that QEMU plays the sound cards through, as alsa, pa or pipewire.

Workspace

The folder of the projects; see Workspaces.

The project

The settings of the open project, in its project.toml, so that it runs the same on another computer. With no project open, the page is greyed.

QEMU folder, VDE folder

Where the programs are; under each, what the folder holds. See Where Virtualbricks looks.

Plugs into machines

Let plugs go into the socket cards of machines. Machines plugged into each other's cards make a loop, and the bricks on a loop don't start: an error names them, as vm1 → vm2 → vm1.

OK and Cancel

OK writes only what you changed, so a setting changed meanwhile from the console stays. A setting that is wrong marks its page, and OK stays greyed, with the reason in its tooltip. Cancel changes nothing.