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QEMU amd64 debian Virtual Machines provisionning using debian preseed mechanism.

Requirements

• on the "ansible client" machine :
  • ansible >= 2.7.5
• on QEMU host(s) (a separate ansible role is responsible for installing those, with networking, directories and preseed.cfg files generation ; more on this topic later on) :
  • bridge-utils
  • libvirt-daemon
  • libvirt-clients
  • qemu
  • qemu-utils
  • uml-utilities
  • vde2
  • virtinst

'''Note :''' when provisionning multiple Virtual Machines, using a local apt-cacher-ng installation IS A MUST-HAVE ; otherwise, every single VM getting installed will download the same debian packages from the internet, wasting resources, time and energy ... i'll add optional apt-cacher-ng proxy support in preseed.cfg template soon.

Example

A usage sample is provided under sample_usage/

The provided ansible.cfg file uses the user account confmgmt to ssh into remote qemu hosts ; either ensure you previously ssh-copy-id confmgmt@your_remote_qemu_host or edit sample_usage/ansible.cfg accordiningly.

This role depends on ansible-role-qemu-host separate ansible role ; see https://github.com/alemansec/ansible-role-qemu-host ('ansible-role-qemu-host' role is responsible for installing and configuring qemu on chosen qemu hosts, it also downloads debian ISO files and generates the preseed.cfg files used here).

  cd sample_usage/
  # edit inventory/sample/hosts and set desired VM(s) parameters
  ansible-playbook book_provision.yml

TODO

• include provisioned-VM(s) networking configuration in this role (when first implementing this, a later part of the actual playbooks was responsible for this step) ; right now provisionned VM(s) have dynamically-allocated IP addresses.
• publish 'ansible-role-qemu-host' role.
• set tags on every single task