Virtualmachines

System Administration - Virtual Machines

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Vagrant - Provider Libvirt

Installation - Steps

  1. Make sure your hardware supports the necessary virtualisation extensions for Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). To check this, enter the following from a terminal prompt:

    # You will need cpu-checker package to be installed
kvm-ok

  2. Add your user to the libvirt group:

    # Make sure the group is created
getent group libvirt

# In case the group does not exist
sudo addgroup libvirt

sudo adduser $USER libvirt

  3. Make sure to install the following packages

    sudo apt install -y libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients bridge-utils virt-manager libvirt-dev qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-system

  4. Install Vagrant

    • To install Vagrant, you can download the Vagrant deb package from https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/2.4.6/

      wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/2.4.6/vagrant_2.4.6-1_amd64.deb

sudo apt install ./vagrant_2.4.6-1_amd64.deb
# Incase of error:
N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/path/vagrant_2.4.6-1_amd64.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied
## Please run
sudo chmod a+r /home/asobhy/Downloads/vagrant_2.4.6-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./vagrant_2.4.6-1_amd64.deb

  5. Install the vagrant-libvirt plugin for Vagrant

    vagrant plugin install vagrant-libvirt

Synching Folder between Host and VMs

  • To sync the folder between host and vms, and to be automatically synched, we will use rsync:

    config.vm.synced_folder "~/Workspace/vms/shared", "/vagrant", type: "rsync", rsync__auto: true

  • Run:

    vagrant rsync-auto
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