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Ansible Arch Linux Libvirt Lab
This playbook is intended to help automate the deployment of Arch Linux guests to libvirt on localhost.
This exists mainly as an excercise while I teach myself ansible, and is mostly a reimplementation of this article: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/build-VM-fast-ansible
TODO
- Usage of
virt-customize
doesn't fully work on this image.- Root password does get changed, but hostname remains unchanged.
- Move to using
cloud-init
as shown in the Arch Wiki articles linked in the arch-boxes readme.- Maybe also lock the root and default user accounts as suggested on the
cloud-init
Arch Wiki page
- Maybe also lock the root and default user accounts as suggested on the
- Install and enable QEMU Guest Agent on new guest to allow immediate access to new VM via
community.libvirt.libvirt
ansible module - Minimize/generalize the VM template XML as much as possible.
- Currently, the XML is only slightly modified from one generated by
virt-manager
, so may include lots of unnecessary faff. - Have had issues (already fixed) with the OS Type specification making
virt-manager
unhappy when trying to access new VMs created by this playbook. It's possible this issue might crop up again in the future. - Would like to retain the ability to generate VMs that are usable via
virt-manager
- Maybe create a second ultra-minimal XML template for VMs that won't be used with
virt-manager
?
- Maybe create a second ultra-minimal XML template for VMs that won't be used with
- Currently, the XML is only slightly modified from one generated by
- Add checksum verification for downloaded sources.
- Will require some more fiddling than what the source article suggests due to Arch's release schedule.
- More documentation
Contributing
As always, patches and issues welcome!