Vagrant and Libvirt plugin for @scale deployment

Introduction

"Vagrant - the command line utility for managing the life-cycle of virtual machines." (version: 1.9.2)
Vagrant-libvirt plugin add a provider to Vagrant which allowing Vagrant to control and provision machines via libvirt toolkit. (version 1.3.1)
Vagrant up, destroy, suspend, resume, halt, ssh, reload, package and provision commands.

Setup and Execution

Vagrant and libvirt plugin setup

Here we select a VM with Ubuntu 16.04 installed as Vagrant host server.

Vagrant host Environment Preparation:

Install Vagrant dependency

$ sudo apt-get install ruby-full

$ sudo apt install ruby-bundler

$ git clone https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant.git

$ cd vagrant

$ bundle install
Install latest version vagrant from https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

$ wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/1.9.2/vagrant_1.9.2_x86_64.deb

$ sudo dpkg -i vagrant_1.9.2_x86_64.deb

$ vagrant --version "to make sure Vagrant version as your expectation"
Need to make sure your have all the build dependencies (in Ubuntu) installed for vagrant-libvirt.

** Uncomment "deb-src" sources in "/etc/apt/sources.list"**

> $ sudo apt-get update

> $ apt-get build-dep vagrant ruby-libvirt

> $ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin libvirt-dev

> $ sudo apt-get install qemu libvirt-bin ebtables dnsmasq

> $ sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev libxml2-dev libvirt-dev zlib1g-dev ruby-dev

> $ sudo adduser $USER libvirtd

Need to install vagrant-libvirt use standard vagrant plugin installation method.

$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-libvirt

$ vagrant plugin list

vagrant-libvirt (0.0.37)

Use "Packer" and Packer templates to build vagrant box.

Packer build templates found in chef/bento github repo..

$ git clone https://github.com/chef/bento

$ cd bento

$ packer build -only qemu -var "headless=true" ubuntu-14.04.amd64.json

$ vagrant box add builds/ubuntu-14.04.libvirt.box --name "InfraSIM"

$ vagrant box list

InfraSIM (libvirt, 0)

InfraSIM-Ubuntu-1604 (libvirt, 0)

**While building your box using packer, ubuntu-14.04-amd64-libvirt-box is recommended. **

Prepare Vagrantfile

Please prepare this file base on provider info, an example is uploaded to GitHub InfraSIM/tools/@scale repo for reference. https://github.com/InfraSIM/tools