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+# Run Qemu in Kubernetes Pods
+
+The goal of this project is to provide the means for running Qemu
+based VMs in Kubernetes pods. 
+
+The project was triggered by a remark in the discussion about RedHat
+[dropping SPICE support](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2030592) 
+from the RHEL packages. 
+[One comment](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2030592#c4) 
+mentioned that the [KubeVirt](https://kubevirt.io/) project isn't
+interested in supporting SPICE.
+
+Time to have a look at alternatives. Libvirt has become a common
+tool to configure and run Qemu. But some of its functionality, notably
+the management of storage for the VMs and networking is already provided
+by Kubernetes. Therefore this project takes a fresh approach of
+running Qemu in a pod using a simple, lightweight manager called "runner".
+The runner makes use of the Kubernetes features for resource management as
+much as possible.
+
+The project does in no way attempt to replace kubevirt. Its goal is 
+to provide a simple solution for the use case of running a virtual 
+machine in a common configuration in a Kubernetes cluster.
+ 
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