diff --git a/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/async_cmd.py b/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/async_cmd.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e9e2dba53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/async_cmd.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import asyncio
+import logging
+import shlex
+
+from .errors import ClanError
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+async def run(cmd: list[str]) -> bytes:
+    log.debug(f"$: {shlex.join(cmd)}")
+    proc = await asyncio.create_subprocess_exec(
+        *cmd,
+        stdout=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE,
+        stderr=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE,
+    )
+    stdout, stderr = await proc.communicate()
+
+    if proc.returncode != 0:
+        raise ClanError(
+            f"""
+command: {shlex.join(cmd)}
+exit code: {proc.returncode}
+command output:
+{stderr.decode("utf-8")}
+"""
+        )
+    return stdout
diff --git a/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/task_manager.py b/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/task_manager.py
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/task_manager.py
rename to pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/task_manager.py
diff --git a/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/vms/create.py b/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/vms/create.py
index d8786e415..b3eb51d4e 100644
--- a/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/vms/create.py
+++ b/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/vms/create.py
@@ -1,26 +1,114 @@
 import argparse
-import asyncio
-from typing import Any, Iterator
+import json
+import tempfile
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Iterator
 from uuid import UUID
 
-from fastapi.responses import StreamingResponse
-
 from ..dirs import get_clan_flake_toplevel
-from ..webui.routers import vms
-from ..webui.schemas import VmConfig
+from ..nix import nix_build, nix_shell
+from ..task_manager import BaseTask, CmdState, get_task, register_task
+from .inspect import VmConfig
 
 
-def read_stream_response(stream: StreamingResponse) -> Iterator[Any]:
-    iterator = stream.body_iterator
-    while True:
-        try:
-            tem = asyncio.run(iterator.__anext__())  # type: ignore
-        except StopAsyncIteration:
-            break
-        yield tem
+class BuildVmTask(BaseTask):
+    def __init__(self, uuid: UUID, vm: VmConfig) -> None:
+        super().__init__(uuid)
+        self.vm = vm
+
+    def get_vm_create_info(self, cmds: Iterator[CmdState]) -> dict:
+        clan_dir = self.vm.flake_url
+        machine = self.vm.flake_attr
+        cmd = next(cmds)
+        cmd.run(
+            nix_build(
+                [
+                    # f'{clan_dir}#clanInternals.machines."{system}"."{machine}".config.clan.virtualisation.createJSON' # TODO use this
+                    f'{clan_dir}#nixosConfigurations."{machine}".config.system.clan.vm.create'
+                ]
+            )
+        )
+        vm_json = "".join(cmd.stdout)
+        self.log.debug(f"VM JSON path: {vm_json}")
+        with open(vm_json) as f:
+            return json.load(f)
+
+    def task_run(self) -> None:
+        cmds = self.register_cmds(4)
+
+        machine = self.vm.flake_attr
+        self.log.debug(f"Creating VM for {machine}")
+
+        # TODO: We should get this from the vm argument
+        vm_config = self.get_vm_create_info(cmds)
+
+        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdir_:
+            xchg_dir = Path(tmpdir_) / "xchg"
+            xchg_dir.mkdir()
+            disk_img = f"{tmpdir_}/disk.img"
+
+            cmd = next(cmds)
+            cmd.run(
+                nix_shell(
+                    ["qemu"],
+                    [
+                        "qemu-img",
+                        "create",
+                        "-f",
+                        "raw",
+                        disk_img,
+                        "1024M",
+                    ],
+                )
+            )
+
+            cmd = next(cmds)
+            cmd.run(
+                nix_shell(
+                    ["e2fsprogs"],
+                    [
+                        "mkfs.ext4",
+                        "-L",
+                        "nixos",
+                        disk_img,
+                    ],
+                )
+            )
+
+            cmd = next(cmds)
+            cmd.run(
+                nix_shell(
+                    ["qemu"],
+                    [
+                        # fmt: off
+                        "qemu-kvm",
+                        "-name", machine,
+                        "-m", f'{vm_config["memorySize"]}M',
+                        "-smp", str(vm_config["cores"]),
+                        "-device", "virtio-rng-pci",
+                        "-net", "nic,netdev=user.0,model=virtio", "-netdev", "user,id=user.0",
+                        "-virtfs", "local,path=/nix/store,security_model=none,mount_tag=nix-store",
+                        "-virtfs", f"local,path={xchg_dir},security_model=none,mount_tag=shared",
+                        "-virtfs", f"local,path={xchg_dir},security_model=none,mount_tag=xchg",
+                        "-drive", f'cache=writeback,file={disk_img},format=raw,id=drive1,if=none,index=1,werror=report',
+                        "-device", "virtio-blk-pci,bootindex=1,drive=drive1,serial=root",
+                        "-device", "virtio-keyboard",
+                        "-usb",
+                        "-device", "usb-tablet,bus=usb-bus.0",
+                        "-kernel", f'{vm_config["toplevel"]}/kernel',
+                        "-initrd", vm_config["initrd"],
+                        "-append", f'{(Path(vm_config["toplevel"]) / "kernel-params").read_text()} init={vm_config["toplevel"]}/init regInfo={vm_config["regInfo"]}/registration console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0',
+                        # fmt: on
+                    ],
+                )
+            )
 
 
-def create(args: argparse.Namespace) -> None:
+def create_vm(vm: VmConfig) -> UUID:
+    return register_task(BuildVmTask, vm)
+
+
+def create_command(args: argparse.Namespace) -> None:
     clan_dir = get_clan_flake_toplevel().as_posix()
     vm = VmConfig(
         flake_url=clan_dir,
@@ -30,17 +118,12 @@ def create(args: argparse.Namespace) -> None:
         memory_size=0,
     )
 
-    res = asyncio.run(vms.create_vm(vm))
-    print(res.json())
-    uuid = UUID(res.uuid)
-
-    stream = asyncio.run(vms.get_vm_logs(uuid))
-
-    for line in read_stream_response(stream):
+    uuid = create_vm(vm)
+    task = get_task(uuid)
+    for line in task.logs_iter():
         print(line, end="")
-    print("")
 
 
 def register_create_parser(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser) -> None:
     parser.add_argument("machine", type=str)
-    parser.set_defaults(func=create)
+    parser.set_defaults(func=create_command)
diff --git a/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/vms/inspect.py b/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/vms/inspect.py
index f98009a9d..9b8559a75 100644
--- a/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/vms/inspect.py
+++ b/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/vms/inspect.py
@@ -1,16 +1,42 @@
 import argparse
 import asyncio
+import json
 
+from pydantic import BaseModel
+
+from ..async_cmd import run
 from ..dirs import get_clan_flake_toplevel
-from ..webui.routers import vms
+from ..nix import nix_eval
 
 
-def inspect(args: argparse.Namespace) -> None:
+class VmConfig(BaseModel):
+    flake_url: str
+    flake_attr: str
+
+    cores: int
+    memory_size: int
+    graphics: bool
+
+
+async def inspect_vm(flake_url: str, flake_attr: str) -> VmConfig:
+    cmd = nix_eval(
+        [
+            f"{flake_url}#nixosConfigurations.{json.dumps(flake_attr)}.config.system.clan.vm.config"
+        ]
+    )
+    stdout = await run(cmd)
+    data = json.loads(stdout)
+    return VmConfig(flake_url=flake_url, flake_attr=flake_attr, **data)
+
+
+def inspect_command(args: argparse.Namespace) -> None:
     clan_dir = get_clan_flake_toplevel().as_posix()
-    res = asyncio.run(vms.inspect_vm(flake_url=clan_dir, flake_attr=args.machine))
-    print(res.json())
+    res = asyncio.run(inspect_vm(flake_url=clan_dir, flake_attr=args.machine))
+    print("Cores:", res.cores)
+    print("Memory size:", res.memory_size)
+    print("Graphics:", res.graphics)
 
 
 def register_inspect_parser(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser) -> None:
     parser.add_argument("machine", type=str)
-    parser.set_defaults(func=inspect)
+    parser.set_defaults(func=inspect_command)
diff --git a/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/app.py b/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/app.py
index daf415861..d399577e1 100644
--- a/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/app.py
+++ b/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/app.py
@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@ from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
 from fastapi.routing import APIRoute
 from fastapi.staticfiles import StaticFiles
 
+from ..errors import ClanError
 from .assets import asset_path
-from .routers import flake, health, machines, root, utils, vms
+from .error_handlers import clan_error_handler
+from .routers import flake, health, machines, root, vms
 
 origins = [
     "http://localhost:3000",
@@ -32,9 +34,7 @@ def setup_app() -> FastAPI:
     # Needs to be last in register. Because of wildcard route
     app.include_router(root.router)
 
-    app.add_exception_handler(
-        utils.NixBuildException, utils.nix_build_exception_handler
-    )
+    app.add_exception_handler(ClanError, clan_error_handler)
 
     app.mount("/static", StaticFiles(directory=asset_path()), name="static")
 
diff --git a/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/error_handlers.py b/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/error_handlers.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c7f226d0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/error_handlers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import logging
+
+from fastapi import Request, status
+from fastapi.encoders import jsonable_encoder
+from fastapi.responses import JSONResponse
+
+from ..errors import ClanError
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def clan_error_handler(request: Request, exc: ClanError) -> JSONResponse:
+    log.error("ClanError: %s", exc)
+    detail = [
+        {
+            "loc": [],
+            "msg": str(exc),
+        }
+    ]
+    return JSONResponse(
+        status_code=status.HTTP_422_UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY,
+        content=jsonable_encoder(dict(detail=detail)),
+    )
diff --git a/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/routers/flake.py b/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/routers/flake.py
index c5f15a970..e1361284b 100644
--- a/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/routers/flake.py
+++ b/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/routers/flake.py
@@ -6,15 +6,15 @@ from fastapi import APIRouter, HTTPException
 
 from clan_cli.webui.schemas import FlakeAction, FlakeAttrResponse, FlakeResponse
 
+from ...async_cmd import run
 from ...nix import nix_command, nix_flake_show
-from .utils import run_cmd
 
 router = APIRouter()
 
 
 async def get_attrs(url: str) -> list[str]:
     cmd = nix_flake_show(url)
-    stdout = await run_cmd(cmd)
+    stdout = await run(cmd)
 
     data: dict[str, dict] = {}
     try:
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ async def inspect_flake(
     # Extract the flake from the given URL
     # We do this by running 'nix flake prefetch {url} --json'
     cmd = nix_command(["flake", "prefetch", url, "--json", "--refresh"])
-    stdout = await run_cmd(cmd)
+    stdout = await run(cmd)
     data: dict[str, str] = json.loads(stdout)
 
     if data.get("storePath") is None:
diff --git a/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/routers/utils.py b/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/routers/utils.py
deleted file mode 100644
index dff71d245..000000000
--- a/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/routers/utils.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-import asyncio
-import logging
-import shlex
-
-from fastapi import HTTPException, Request, status
-from fastapi.encoders import jsonable_encoder
-from fastapi.responses import JSONResponse
-
-log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-
-
-class NixBuildException(HTTPException):
-    def __init__(self, msg: str, loc: list = ["body", "flake_attr"]):
-        detail = [
-            {
-                "loc": loc,
-                "msg": msg,
-                "type": "value_error",
-            }
-        ]
-        super().__init__(
-            status_code=status.HTTP_422_UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY, detail=detail
-        )
-
-
-def nix_build_exception_handler(
-    request: Request, exc: NixBuildException
-) -> JSONResponse:
-    log.error("NixBuildException: %s", exc)
-    return JSONResponse(
-        status_code=exc.status_code,
-        content=jsonable_encoder(dict(detail=exc.detail)),
-    )
-
-
-async def run_cmd(cmd: list[str]) -> bytes:
-    log.debug(f"Running command: {shlex.join(cmd)}")
-    proc = await asyncio.create_subprocess_exec(
-        *cmd,
-        stdout=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE,
-        stderr=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE,
-    )
-    stdout, stderr = await proc.communicate()
-
-    if proc.returncode != 0:
-        raise NixBuildException(
-            f"""
-command: {shlex.join(cmd)}
-exit code: {proc.returncode}
-command output:
-{stderr.decode("utf-8")}
-"""
-        )
-    return stdout
diff --git a/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/routers/vms.py b/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/routers/vms.py
index 87db98e71..a56e9a17d 100644
--- a/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/routers/vms.py
+++ b/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/routers/vms.py
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
-import json
 import logging
-import tempfile
-from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Annotated, Iterator
 from uuid import UUID
 
@@ -11,131 +8,20 @@ from fastapi.responses import StreamingResponse
 
 from clan_cli.webui.routers.flake import get_attrs
 
-from ...nix import nix_build, nix_eval, nix_shell
+from ...task_manager import get_task
+from ...vms import create, inspect
 from ..schemas import VmConfig, VmCreateResponse, VmInspectResponse, VmStatusResponse
-from ..task_manager import BaseTask, CmdState, get_task, register_task
-from .utils import run_cmd
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 router = APIRouter()
 
 
-def nix_inspect_vm_cmd(machine: str, flake_url: str) -> list[str]:
-    return nix_eval(
-        [
-            f"{flake_url}#nixosConfigurations.{json.dumps(machine)}.config.system.clan.vm.config"
-        ]
-    )
-
-
-def nix_build_vm_cmd(machine: str, flake_url: str) -> list[str]:
-    return nix_build(
-        [
-            f"{flake_url}#nixosConfigurations.{json.dumps(machine)}.config.system.build.vm"
-        ]
-    )
-
-
-class BuildVmTask(BaseTask):
-    def __init__(self, uuid: UUID, vm: VmConfig) -> None:
-        super().__init__(uuid)
-        self.vm = vm
-
-    def get_vm_create_info(self, cmds: Iterator[CmdState]) -> dict:
-        clan_dir = self.vm.flake_url
-        machine = self.vm.flake_attr
-        cmd = next(cmds)
-        cmd.run(
-            nix_build(
-                [
-                    # f'{clan_dir}#clanInternals.machines."{system}"."{machine}".config.clan.virtualisation.createJSON' # TODO use this
-                    f'{clan_dir}#nixosConfigurations."{machine}".config.system.clan.vm.create'
-                ]
-            )
-        )
-        vm_json = "".join(cmd.stdout)
-        self.log.debug(f"VM JSON path: {vm_json}")
-        with open(vm_json) as f:
-            return json.load(f)
-
-    def task_run(self) -> None:
-        cmds = self.register_cmds(4)
-
-        machine = self.vm.flake_attr
-        self.log.debug(f"Creating VM for {machine}")
-
-        # TODO: We should get this from the vm argument
-        vm_config = self.get_vm_create_info(cmds)
-
-        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdir_:
-            xchg_dir = Path(tmpdir_) / "xchg"
-            xchg_dir.mkdir()
-            disk_img = f"{tmpdir_}/disk.img"
-
-            cmd = next(cmds)
-            cmd.run(
-                nix_shell(
-                    ["qemu"],
-                    [
-                        "qemu-img",
-                        "create",
-                        "-f",
-                        "raw",
-                        disk_img,
-                        "1024M",
-                    ],
-                )
-            )
-
-            cmd = next(cmds)
-            cmd.run(
-                [
-                    "mkfs.ext4",
-                    "-L",
-                    "nixos",
-                    disk_img,
-                ]
-            )
-
-            cmd = next(cmds)
-            cmd.run(
-                nix_shell(
-                    ["qemu"],
-                    [
-                        # fmt: off
-                        "qemu-kvm",
-                        "-name", machine,
-                        "-m", f'{vm_config["memorySize"]}M',
-                        "-smp", str(vm_config["cores"]),
-                        "-device", "virtio-rng-pci",
-                        "-net", "nic,netdev=user.0,model=virtio", "-netdev", "user,id=user.0",
-                        "-virtfs", "local,path=/nix/store,security_model=none,mount_tag=nix-store",
-                        "-virtfs", f"local,path={xchg_dir},security_model=none,mount_tag=shared",
-                        "-virtfs", f"local,path={xchg_dir},security_model=none,mount_tag=xchg",
-                        "-drive", f'cache=writeback,file={disk_img},format=raw,id=drive1,if=none,index=1,werror=report',
-                        "-device", "virtio-blk-pci,bootindex=1,drive=drive1,serial=root",
-                        "-device", "virtio-keyboard",
-                        "-usb",
-                        "-device", "usb-tablet,bus=usb-bus.0",
-                        "-kernel", f'{vm_config["toplevel"]}/kernel',
-                        "-initrd", vm_config["initrd"],
-                        "-append", f'{(Path(vm_config["toplevel"]) / "kernel-params").read_text()} init={vm_config["toplevel"]}/init regInfo={vm_config["regInfo"]}/registration console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0',
-                        # fmt: on
-                    ],
-                )
-            )
-
-
 @router.post("/api/vms/inspect")
 async def inspect_vm(
     flake_url: Annotated[str, Body()], flake_attr: Annotated[str, Body()]
 ) -> VmInspectResponse:
-    cmd = nix_inspect_vm_cmd(flake_attr, flake_url=flake_url)
-    stdout = await run_cmd(cmd)
-    data = json.loads(stdout)
-    return VmInspectResponse(
-        config=VmConfig(flake_url=flake_url, flake_attr=flake_attr, **data)
-    )
+    config = await inspect.inspect_vm(flake_url, flake_attr)
+    return VmInspectResponse(config=config)
 
 
 @router.get("/api/vms/{uuid}/status")
@@ -168,5 +54,5 @@ async def create_vm(vm: Annotated[VmConfig, Body()]) -> VmCreateResponse:
             status_code=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST,
             detail=f"Provided attribute '{vm.flake_attr}' does not exist.",
         )
-    uuid = register_task(BuildVmTask, vm)
+    uuid = create.create_vm(vm)
     return VmCreateResponse(uuid=str(uuid))
diff --git a/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/schemas.py b/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/schemas.py
index c87931a04..578125395 100644
--- a/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/schemas.py
+++ b/pkgs/clan-cli/clan_cli/webui/schemas.py
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ from typing import List
 
 from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
 
+from ..vms.inspect import VmConfig
+
 
 class Status(Enum):
     ONLINE = "online"
@@ -35,15 +37,6 @@ class SchemaResponse(BaseModel):
     schema_: dict = Field(alias="schema")
 
 
-class VmConfig(BaseModel):
-    flake_url: str
-    flake_attr: str
-
-    cores: int
-    memory_size: int
-    graphics: bool
-
-
 class VmStatusResponse(BaseModel):
     returncode: list[int | None]
     running: bool