vmbuilder script pushes chef client into machine

PyVmBuilder/pyvmbuilder.py

@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ def __init__( self, hypervisor = 'kvm', distro = 'ubuntu', options = None, vmbui
                  'flavour': 'virtual',
                  'variant': 'minbase',
                  'arch': 'i386',
-                 'addpkg': ['sudo', 'acpid'],
-                 'timezone': 'America/Denver',
+                 'addpkg': ['gpgv', 'ubuntu-keyring', 'libterm-readline-gnu-perl', 'sudo', 'acpid', 'apt-utils', 'openssh-server'],
+                 'dest': "%s-%s" % (self.distro, self.hypervisor)
                 }
         else:
             self.opts = options
@@ -54,8 +54,11 @@ def _build_opts( self ):
         return opts
 
     def vm_image_path( self ):
+        """
+            Return the path to the generated vm image. This has to be run after build_vm
+        """
         base_path = os.path.abspath( '.' )
-        vm_path = os.path.join( base_path, 'ubuntu-kvm' )
+        vm_path = os.path.join( base_path, self.opts['dest'] )
         files = os.listdir( vm_path )
         vm_name = ''
         for f in files:
@@ -64,13 +67,20 @@ def vm_image_path( self ):
         return os.path.join( vm_path, vm_name )
 
     def setOpt( self, opt, value ):
+        """
+            Allows you to set any option that vmbuilder has by supplying the option name(long name not short)
+            and the value for that option.
+        """
         self.opts[opt] = value
 
     def get_build_command( self ):
         return [self.vmbuilder_path, self.hypervisor, self.distro] + self._build_opts( )
 
     def build_vm( self ):
+        """ Build the vm using the options given """
         if not self._isRoot( ):
             raise
-        p = Popen( self.get_build_command(), stdout = PIPE, stderr = STDOUT )
+        cmd = self.get_build_command()
+        print "Building VM with %s" % cmd
+        p = Popen( cmd, stdout = PIPE, stderr = STDOUT )
         return p

PyVmBuilder/test.py → PyVmBuilder/test/test.py

@@ -1,19 +1,20 @@
-from pyvmbuilder import vmbuilder
+from ..pyvmbuilder import vmbuilder
 import os
 import sys
 
 def buildvm( ):
     builder = vmbuilder( )
     builder.setOpt( 'mirror', 'http://ubuntu.osuosl.org/ubuntu' )
     builder.setOpt( 'user', 'install' )
-    builder.setOpt( 'pass', '123457' )
-    builder.setOpt( 'hostname', 'acg01' )
-    builder.setOpt( 'domain', 'msu.montana.edu' )
-    builder.setOpt( 'ip', '153.90.237.133' )
-    builder.setOpt( 'gw', '153.90.237.254' )
-    builder.setOpt( 'destdir', 'acg01' )
+    builder.setOpt( 'pass', 'password' )
+    builder.setOpt( 'hostname', 'ubuntu-01' )
+    builder.setOpt( 'domain', 'example.com' )
+    builder.setOpt( 'ip', '1.1.1.2' )
+    builder.setOpt( 'gw', '1.1.1.1' )
+    builder.setOpt( 'dest', 'some-dest-folder' )
+    builder.setOpt( 'timezone', 'America/Denver' )
     try:
-        p = vmbuilder().build_vm()
+        p = builder.build_vm()
     except Exception as e:
         print "Make sure you run as root"
         print e

README

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ REQUIREMENTS
 PyChef (Installed by pip below)
 Django (Installed by pip below)
 Vmbuilder (https://launchpad.net/vmbuilder or apt-get install vmbuilder)
+Chef Server
 
 NOTES
 =====
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ INSTALL
 1) pip install -r requirements.txt
 2) Install PyVmBuilder
    2.1) cd PyVmBuilder; python setup.py install
+3) Setup a client in chef for ChefMox to use in root's homedirectory
 
 
 TROUBLESHOOTING

vmbuilder_execscripts/base_chef_install.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+mkdir $1/etc/chef
+knife configure client $1/etc/chef/
+
+chroot $1 sudo apt-get update
+chroot $1 sudo apt-get install --force-yes -y ruby ruby-dev libopenssl-ruby rdoc ri irb build-essential wget ssl-cert lsb-release 
+
+chroot $1 wget http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.7.2.tgz -O /tmp/rubygems-1.7.2.tgz
+chroot $1 tar zxf /tmp/rubygems-1.7.2.tgz -C /tmp
+chroot $1 sudo ruby /tmp/rubygems-1.7.2/setup.rb --no-format-executable
+
+chroot $1 sudo gem install chef --no-ri --no-rdoc