A procedure for creating a Cisco ASAv Vagrant box for the libvirt provider.
Vagrant version 2.2.16 introduced a bug that breaks SSH connectivity - #12344
0. Verify the prerequisite tools are installed.
$ which git python ansible libvirtd virsh qemu-system-x86_64 vagrant $ vagrant plugin list vagrant-libvirt (0.5.1, global)
1. Install the genisoimage
tool.
Ubuntu 18.04
$ sudo apt install genisoimage
Arch Linux
$ sudo pacman -S cdrtools
2. Log in and download the Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance qcow2 package for the Cisco ASAv Virtual Firewall file. Save the file to your Downloads
directory.
3. Copy (and rename) the disk image file to the /var/lib/libvirt/images
directory.
$ sudo cp $HOME/Downloads/asav9-16-1.qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/cisco-asav.qcow2
4. Modify the file ownership and permissions. Note the owner may differ between Linux distributions.
Ubuntu 18.04
$ sudo chown libvirt-qemu:kvm /var/lib/libvirt/images/cisco-asav.qcow2 $ sudo chmod u+x /var/lib/libvirt/images/cisco-asav.qcow2
Arch Linux
$ sudo chown nobody:kvm /var/lib/libvirt/images/cisco-asav.qcow2 $ sudo chmod u+x /var/lib/libvirt/images/cisco-asav.qcow2
5. Clone this GitHub repo and cd into the directory.
$ git clone https://github.com/mweisel/cisco-asav-vagrant-libvirt $ cd cisco-asav-vagrant-libvirt
6. Create the day0.iso
file. The file provides the initial configuration for the Cisco ASAv. It will be mounted and read on first boot.
$ cd files $ genisoimage -r -o day0.iso day0-config
7. Copy the day0.iso
file to the /var/lib/libvirt/images
directory.
$ sudo cp day0.iso /var/lib/libvirt/images/
8. Modify the file ownership and permissions.
Ubuntu 18.04
$ sudo chown libvirt-qemu:kvm /var/lib/libvirt/images/day0.iso $ sudo chmod u+x /var/lib/libvirt/images/day0.iso
Arch Linux
$ sudo chown nobody:kvm /var/lib/libvirt/images/day0.iso $ sudo chmod u+x /var/lib/libvirt/images/day0.iso
9. Create the boxes
directory.
$ mkdir -p $HOME/boxes
10. Start the vagrant-libvirt
network (if not already started).
$ virsh -c qemu:///system net-list $ virsh -c qemu:///system net-start vagrant-libvirt
11. Run the Ansible playbook.
$ cd .. $ ansible-playbook main.yml
12. Copy (and rename) the Vagrant box artifact to the boxes
directory.
$ cp cisco-asav.box $HOME/boxes/cisco-asav-9.16.1.box
13. Copy the box metadata file to the boxes
directory.
$ cp ./files/cisco-asav.json $HOME/boxes/
14. Change the current working directory to boxes
.
$ cd $HOME/boxes
15. Substitute the HOME
placeholder string in the box metadata file.
$ awk '/url/{gsub(/^ */,"");print}' cisco-asav.json "url": "file://HOME/boxes/cisco-asav-VER.box" $ sed -i "s|HOME|${HOME}|" cisco-asav.json $ awk '/url/{gsub(/^ */,"");print}' cisco-asav.json "url": "file:///home/marc/boxes/cisco-asav-VER.box"
16. Also, substitute the VER
placeholder string with the Cisco ASA version you're using.
$ awk '/VER/{gsub(/^ */,"");print}' cisco-asav.json "version": "VER", "url": "file:///home/marc/boxes/cisco-asav-VER.box" $ sed -i 's/VER/9.16.1/g' cisco-asav.json $ awk '/\<version\>|url/{gsub(/^ */,"");print}' cisco-asav.json "version": "9.16.1", "url": "file:///home/marc/boxes/cisco-asav-9.16.1.box"
17. Add the Vagrant box to the local inventory.
$ vagrant box add cisco-asav.json
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