I want to put disk images wherever I want because my root FS is small (often on ZVOLs, which are a big massive PITA to use with libvirt) without having to read a million different websites and man pages. My use case, 90% of the time, is that I just want to run a damn Windows or FreeBSD VM on my workstation. I still use it in those use cases (I usually prefer Proxmox this day, though), it works fine, I can connect to remote instances using SSH and Virt-Manager and I like how it often just works. When I had to run stuff on a big server which only does VM, maybe with OpenStack and other orchestration systems on top, libvirt was often _fine_. I have used libvirt for almost a decade before going back to plain QEMU I must say that using it from the CLI is an herculean task, you often have to edit plain XML in order to do whatever you want, and the cherry on top is that `virsh`is a huge pile of cow dung that often drags you into a Sisyphean fight against the aforementioned pointless abstractions - you find yourself configuring "domains" and "virtual networks" when you really only wanted to launch Windows to run Word. Libvirt wasted a lot of effort into abstracting everything behind a ton of pointless hypervisor-agnostic cruft, only to then deprecate basically every single backend except QEMU.
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