Fast way to to start VM / Docker?

[testdasi]

Is there any fast way start a VM / Docker without having to do a lot of clicks? 

 

For example

• Normal way to start VM: Open Browser => Type tower => click Dashboard => Click VM => click Start => VM starts
  
• Is there any way to: Open Browser => Click a bookmark => VM starts ?
  

 

I think I can ssh in and type some commands (not sure what) to start a VM but then it's still a lot slower than just create a link to a bookmark on phone and then open it when needed.

 

Edit:

The VM can certainly be set on auto start  but if I have multiple VMs which use the same resource e.g. maybe a Linux + a Windows test VMs both share the same GPU => can't autostart both without crashing.

Wondering if there's any way to pick 1 VM to start without a lot of clicking.

 

 

[BRiT]

Have it set to autostart and always run?

[testdasi]

Have it set to autostart and always run?

What if I have 2 test VMs sharing the same GPU pass through? Or perhaps if I'm testing a crashy VM, is there any quick way to start it (i.e. fewer clicks) as I put in the fixes?

[archedraft]

I have the same setup and mostly I find it easiest to just click to the page ever so often as I have 1 main VM that uses the GPU. That said you could make a script that you run that shutdown the current VM, waits xx amount of seconds and starts the next VM. It would look something like this:

virsh shutdown win10vm
sleep 30
virsh start win7vm