iofq / virt

scripts for provisioning (K)VMs with libvirt and cloud-init

virsh

This project was created to streamline creating VMs across my local hardware with libvirt. Using premade OS images and cloud-init, we can easily spin up a machine in a state ready for Ansible to further configure. VNC is also enabled if needed.

Usage:

• obtain a .qcow2 image of your OS of choice and place it in images/
• create or edit the file user-data
  • Examples
  • at least a user and ssh key or password is needed to access the system

./virt-install.sh -h HOSTNAME -i IMAGE.qcow2

Flags:

-h HOSTNAME - hostname of created machine. HOSTNAME.qcow2 will be created in images/

-i IMAGE (optional) .qcow2 image to clone. If left out, images/base.qcow2 will be tried.

-m RAM - (optional) Ram in MB to be allocated to the machine

-c CPU - (optional) Virtual CPUs to be allocated to the machine

-d - delete and undefine Virtual Machine, keeping the disk file.

-D - delete and undefine Virtual Machine, also deleting disk file.

Config:

Configuration can be made by editing the config file. The defaults are set by the script and any changes will override them.