mirror-env/libvirt

Installation

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Prerequisites (debian)

Install QEMU and KVM

$ apt install --no-install-recommends qemu-system libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system

Install other packages for the playbook

$ apt install ansible cloud-image-utils dnsmasq ovmf python3

Packages I can't tell if you need or not

virtinst 
virt-manager
bridge-utils 

Then install virt-viewer to interact run through the install with

virt-viewer 

Prerequisites (archlinux)

needs update

$ pacman -S qemu libvirt virt-install virt-viewer ansible 

Running the Playbook

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Run the playbook from one directory down

ansible-playbook libvirt/main.yml

Then connect to the created vm using virt-viewer

virt-viewer --domain-name mirror

If vm is on a remote machine

virt-viewer --connect qemu+ssh://user@X.X.X.X/system mirror

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Follow the steps under Installing Ubuntu before continuing

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container may stop so will need to start with

virsh start mirror

after starting check the ip address of the vm with

virsh net-dhcp-leases mirbr0

and ssh

ssh local@192.168.123.XXX

in the machine switch to root and update before installing some packages and cloning the repo

$ sudo su
$ cd
$ apt update && apt upgrade
$ apt install git ansible
$ git clone https://git.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/public/mirror-env.git

then enter mirror-env/mirror and use the instructions listed there

Troubleshooting

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net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

modprobe kvm_intel

If running in /root may need to edit config

# edit /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
user = "root"
group = "root"
$ service restart libvirtd

Installing Ubuntu

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• user: local
• password: password

Note: the resulting system created from following these steps should look like this:

$ lsblk
NAME           MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINT
loop0            7:0    0 55.4M  1 loop  /snap/core18/2128
loop1            7:1    0 32.3M  1 loop  /snap/snapd/12704
loop2            7:2    0 70.3M  1 loop  /snap/lxd/21029
loop3            7:3    0 32.3M  1 loop  /snap/snapd/13170
loop4            7:4    0 61.8M  1 loop  /snap/core20/1081
loop5            7:5    0 67.3M  1 loop  /snap/lxd/21545
sr0             11:0    1 1024M  0 rom   
vda            252:0    0   10G  0 disk  
├─vda1         252:1    0  512M  0 part  /boot/efi
└─vda2         252:2    0  9.5G  0 part  
  └─md0          9:0    0  9.5G  0 raid1 
    └─vg0-root 253:0    0  9.5G  0 lvm   /
vdb            252:16   0   10G  0 disk  
├─vdb1         252:17   0  512M  0 part  
└─vdb2         252:18   0  9.5G  0 part  
  └─md0          9:0    0  9.5G  0 raid1 
    └─vg0-root 253:0    0  9.5G  0 lvm   /
vdc            252:32   0   10G  0 disk  
vdd            252:48   0   10G  0 disk  
vde            252:64   0   10G  0 disk  
vdf            252:80   0   10G  0 disk  

Create a new user with

• username: local
• password: password

You can ignore this error and just press enter

Now you go back to Running the Playbook