from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
import os

user = os.getlogin()
image = f"/home/{user}/safe/debian.qcow2"


initialize = [
        "qemu-system-x86_64",
        "-enable-kvm",
        "-m", "2G",
        "-nic", "user,hostfwd=tcp::5555-:22",
        "-drive", "file=%s,media=disk,if=virtio" % image,
#        "-display", "sdl",
]

Popen(["cp", "/home/chopper/safe/debian.qcow2", f"/home/{user}/nnnnndebian.qcow2"]) #copy the base image to a directory with everyones virtual machines.
Popen(initialize)