Introduction
This is part three of Building a Networking Virtual Lab. Vagrant can be used to build a Virtial lab on top of KVM/Libvirt
Step 1 Vagrant CentOS packages to install
Install the latest Vagrant rpm from https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/
yum install -y https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/2.1.2/vagrant_2.1.2_x86_64.rpm
Install required packages for Vagrant
yum install -y rubygem-nokogiri gcc ruby-devel zlib-devel libvirt-devel
Check Vagrant is installed
vagrant --version
Step 2 Install Vagrant plugins
Install plugins for Vagrant
vagrant plugin install vagrant-libvirt
vagrant plugin install vagrant-mutate
Step 3 Test Vagrant is working
Add a Vagrant box for testing
vagrant box add centos/7 --provider=libvirt
Make a directory for testing Vagrant
mkdir test
cd test/
Create new Vagrant file
vagrant init centos/7
Bring the VM up
vagrant up
Check status is running
vagrant status
ssh to test the Vagrant image is working
vagrant ssh
exit
Destroy the Vagrant image after you have confirmed Vagrant is working
vagrant destroy
Remove the test directory
cd ..
rm -rf test
Step 4 Add other boxes to your Lab
You can add any image from the publicly Vagrant cloud to your lab. you can find them at the link below
https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/search
If you can't find a image on the Vagrant cloud you can also make your own images from VMs that you have created.
You should now have Vagrant running on KVM/Libvirt.