kvm-cloudimage

Use cloud images on baremetal using libvirt/kvm

Actually, you can select these base OS for Guests

• Debian 12
• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• FreeBSD 14.3 with UFS filesystem
• FreeBSD 14.2 with ZFS filesystem

Pre-requisites

• openssh
• arp
• wget
• curl
• libvirt

In order to create openbsd images you will also need

• python3
• sudo
• signify (Debian: signify-openbsd and signify-openbsd-keys)
• qemu-system-x86_64

Links and credits

In order to get libvirt installed

• Debian guide
• Ubuntu guide
• Fedora guide

Inspirational sites for the project

• https://blog.programster.org/create-debian-12-kvm-guest-from-cloud-image
• https://earlruby.org/2023/02/quickly-create-guest-vms-using-virsh-cloud-image-files-and-cloud-init/
• https://sumit-ghosh.com/posts/create-vm-using-libvirt-cloud-images-cloud-init/)

For openbsd vm with cloud init, hcartiaux's openbsd-cloud-image project is used.

Preparing host

• Define variables file (env_scripts/common.sh). It's recommended to use a folder on your home directory to avoid libvirt permission problems.
• launch install.sh

AppArmor exception

If needed

ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.libvirtd /etc/apparmor.d/disable/
apparmor_parser -R /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.libvirtd

Examples

Command usage

NAME
  ./vm_manage.sh

USAGE
    Usage:  ./vm_manage.sh create -n NAME [-b BRIDGE] [-r RAM] [-c VCPUS] [-s DISK] [-v]
            ./vm_manage.sh delete NAME
            ./vm_manage.sh info NAME
            ./vm_manage.sh connect NAME
            ./vm_manage.sh list

ACTIONS
  create     Create a new virtual machine
  delete     Delete a virtual machine
  list       List all defined virtual machines
  info       Show information about a virtual machine
  connect    Connect to the console of a virtual machine

OPTIONS
  -h         Show this help message
  -n NAME    Host name (required)
  -b BRIDGE  Bridge interface name
  -r RAM     RAM in MB (default: 1024)
  -c VCPUS   Number of VCPUs (default: 1)
  -s DISK    Disk size in GB (default: 10)
  -v         Verbose mode
  
AUTHOR
  Victor Gracia Enguita <victor@burufalla.ovh>

COPYRIGHT
  This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.

Create VM

./vm_manage.sh create -ntestMachine

A VM will ve created with default values. you can set then on env_scripts/common.sh file.

./vm_manage.sh create -ntestMachine -r4098 -c4 -s100

A VM will be created with 4098 MB of RAM, 4 vCPUs and 100Gb of storage

List VMs

./vm_manage.sh list
 Id   Nombre       Estado
-------------------------------
 7    debianTest   ejecutando
 8    ubuntuTest   ejecutando

Connect to an VM

./vm_manage.sh connect debianTest

Get ip of VM

./vm_manage.sh info ubuntuTest
192.168.122.234

Delete VMs

Use as parameter machine name

./vm_dmanage.sh delete ubuntuTest
Are you sure you want to remove the VM 'ubuntuTest' (y/N)? y
Domain 'ubuntuTest' destroyed

Domain 'ubuntuTest' has been undefined

VM 'ubuntuTest' removed successfully.

TODO

• Maybe add more BSD flavours guests support
• add non debian linux derivatives guests support