fast-vm-import-images

This role imports images for fast-vm.

Requirements

This roles was tested only on CentOS/RHEL 7.3. On RHEL systems this role expects that system is properly registered so it can download and install packages. Also the working fast-vm installation is expected to be present on the machine.

NOTE: For RHEL 8.0 images this role also downloads and unpacks the Fedora 29 libguestfs appliance on non-Fedora systems. This may change in future.

Role Variables

• URL or local path base to location where XML files are located

  xml_url_base: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OndrejHome/fast-vm-public-images/master'
  

• URL or local path base to location where hack files are located

  hacks_url_base: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OndrejHome/fast-vm-public-images/master'
  

• URL base of public fast-vm images mirror or local path to fast-vm images

  public_image_url_base: 'http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/people/ondrej_famera/fastvm-images'
  

• URL base of RHEL fast-vm images mirror or local path to fast-vm RHEL images

  rhel_image_url_base: ''
  

Example Playbook

Import all (except of RHEL) images from default mirror.

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: OndrejHome.fast-vm-import-images }

Import everything from from local drive (offline import, no Internet connection required).

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: OndrejHome.fast-vm-import-images, rhel_image_url_base: '/local/path/to/rhel/images', public_image_url_base: '/local/path/to/public/images', xml_url_base: '/local/path', hacks_url_base: '/local/path' }

IMPORTANT By default this role imports all available images. To select which images you want to import use 'tags'. Example of importing CentOS 6 BIOS images, CentOS 7 UEFI images and Fedora 29 image.

# ansible-playbook example.yml --tags 'centos6,centos7_uefi,fedora_29'

License

GPLv3

Author Information

To get in touch with author you can use email ondrej-xa2iel8u@famera.cz or create a issue on github when requesting feature(s).