Mirror Env

This repo helps quickly set up a vm development environment for cs club's mirrors using ansible.

There are three options for getting the mirror dev vm running:

• qemu
• libvirt
• manual

Follow the relevant instructions below.

VM Installation Option 1 (qmeu)

Install the following:

• ansible
• qemu
• genisoimage
• ovmf (find the location of OVMF_CODE.fd, it is system dependent)

Before doing anything else, edit the config files in group_vars/ to your system's needs. For qemu installation specifically, you need to provide the location of your OVMF_CODE.fd file.

To begin the setup process, in this repo's root, run:

$ ansible-playbook -K qemu/main.yml

Due to the way the ubuntu autoinstall is designed, user confirmation is required to start the autoinstallation process. To view the vm, you also need a vnc viewer. TigerVNC is a good choice.

Simply run

$ vncviewer :5900

Enter yes when prompted with this line:

Continue with autoinstall (yes|no)

Once the installation is complete, you can run the vm using:

$ ansible-playbook qemu/run/yml

The default login user has

username: ubuntu
password: ubuntu

VM Install Option 2 (libvirt)

Install Packages (debian)

Install QEMU and KVM

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

Install other packages for the playbook

$ apt install ansible cloud-image-utils dnsmasq ovmf

Other packages that you probably don't need

virtinst 
virt-viewer 
virt-manager
bridge-utils 

Also will need python

Install Packages (archlinux)

needs update

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

Run Playbook

ansible-playbook libvirt/main.yml

First, install ansible and sshpass. Perform all the following commands in the post-install/ directory.

Also install the extra roles

$ ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

Check that ansible can talk to the vm:

$ ansible -m ping all

We can now complete the rest of the post-install with

$ ansible-playbook -K playbook.yml

VM Install Option 3 (manual)

System Details

Further system information for those that are interested.

$ lsblk
NAME           MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINT
vda            252:0    0   10G  0 disk  
├─vda1         252:1    0  500M  0 part  /boot/efi
└─vda2         252:2    0    9G  0 part  
  └─md0          9:0    0    9G  0 raid1 
    └─vg0-root 253:0    0    8G  0 lvm   /
vdb            252:16   0   10G  0 disk  
├─vdb1         252:17   0  500M  0 part  
└─vdb2         252:18   0    9G  0 part  
  └─md0          9:0    0    9G  0 raid1 
    └─vg0-root 253:0    0    8G  0 lvm   /
vdc            252:32   0   10G  0 disk  
├─vdc1         252:33   0   10G  0 part  
└─vdc9         252:41   0    8M  0 part  
vdd            252:48   0   10G  0 disk  
├─vdd1         252:49   0   10G  0 part  
└─vdd9         252:57   0    8M  0 part  
vde            252:64   0   10G  0 disk  
├─vde1         252:65   0   10G  0 part  
└─vde9         252:73   0    8M  0 part  
vdf            252:80   0   10G  0 disk  
├─vdf1         252:81   0   10G  0 part  
└─vdf9         252:89   0    8M  0 part  

Drives vda and vdb are for the main filesystem, they use raid1. Drives vdc, vdd, vde and vdf are in a raidz2 zpool.