fast-vm-server

This role configures OS for use with fast-vm and installs and configures the fast-vm on it.

Requirements

This roles was tested on following systems and versions:

• AlmaLinux 8.5
• CentOS 7.9
• CentOS 8.5
• RHEL 7.8
• RHEL 8.1
• Fedora 31, 32, 33, 34, 35
• Debian 10.11 (not all features are supported)
• Debian 11.2 (not all features are supported)
• Ubuntu 18.04 (not all features are supported)
• Ubuntu 20.04 (not all features are supported)

On RHEL systems this role expects that system is properly registered so it can download and install packages.

(not all features are supported) - OVMF, fence_virtd and firewalld configuration was not tested and is disabled by default on some platforms.

Ansible 2.8.x or newer.

Role Variables

• configure repositories needed for fast-vm installation

  config_repositories: true
  

• install packages needed by fast-vm and fast-vm itself

  install_fastvm: true
  

• configure libvirt for fast-vm access (change groups and permissions settings)

  config_libvirt_access: true
  

• configure libvirt network for fast-vm (libvirtd service will be enabled after boot)

  config_libvirt_network: true
  

• configure storage for fast-vm (create thinpool LV)

  config_storage: true
  

• configure sudoers for fast-vm

  config_sudoers: true
  

• generate /etc/fast.conf configuration file

  config_fastvm_conf: true
  

• install OVMF UEFI firmware needed by UEFI fast-vm machines

  install_ovmf: true
  

• install and configure fence_virtd that can be used to fence the fast-vm VMs using fence_xvm

  install_fence_virtd: true
  

• install custom version of qemu-kvm,qemu-img and seabios-bin to support LSI and MEGASAS emaulated drivers

  install_custom_qemu: true
  

• install and configure firewalld

  use_firewalld: true
  

• group with access to fast-vm

  • required by: config_libvirt_access, config_sudoers, config_fastvm_conf

  fastvm_group: libvirt
  

• name of VG where fast-vm thinpool LV is located

  • required by: config_storage, config_fastvm_conf

  fastvm_vg: c7vg
  

• name of fast-vm thinpool LV

  • required by: config_storage, config_fastvm_conf

  fastvm_lv: fast-vm-pool
  

• size of fast-vm thinpool LV

  • required by: config_storage, config_fastvm_conf

  fastvm_lv_size: 50G
  

• fast-vm network subnet number

  • required by: config_libvirt_network, config_fastvm_conf

  fastvm_net: 42
  

• name of fast-vm NAT libvirt network

  • required by: config_libvirt_network, config_fastvm_conf, install_fence_virt

  fastvm_net_name: fast-vm-nat
  

• prefix for fast-vm VMs

  • required by: config_fastvm_conf

  fastvm_vm_prefix: 'fastvm-'
  

• Allow only owners of VMs and 'root' to delete them

  • required by: config_fastvm_conf

  fastvm_owner_only_delete: 'yes'
  

• Multicast address of fence_virt daemon

  • required by: install_fence_virt

  fence_virtd_address: '225.0.0.12'
  

• Libguest appliance import or generation

  • required by: config_fastvm_conf

  fastvm_appliance: 'import'
  

• System-wide default password for 'keydist' operation.

  • required by: config_fastvm_conf

  fastvm_keydist_password: 'testtest'
  

Example Playbook

Install and configure all basic things needed by fast-vm - default installation:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: ondrejhome.fast-vm-server }

Example hosts inventory file.

[servers]
el7-machine
el8-machine
fedora31-machine
fedora32-machine
fedora33-machine

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).