Replacing Vagrant with KVM and Virsh on Debian for VM management

The article outlines a migration away from Vagrant for local development environments. It proposes using KVM virtualization combined with the Virsh command‑line tool on Debian. The author details the steps required to create and manage virtual machines manually. Configuration files are adjusted to replace Vagrant’s provisioning scripts. The guide emphasizes greater control and reduced overhead compared with Vagrant. Performance benchmarks show comparable startup times for KVM‑based VMs. Users are encouraged to adopt the approach for projects that need fine‑grained VM management. The piece concludes with suggestions for further automation using libvirt.