Vagrant Libvirt Install openSUSE

published: 8th of August 2018

Intro

I have recently started using openSUSE as my server platform of choice. This post will go over installing qemu-kvm and libvirt for use with Vagrant and the vagrant-libirt provider on openSUSE.

For reference the following software will be used in this post.

openSUSE - 15
Vagrant - 2.1.2
Vagrant-libvirt - 0.0.43

Dependencies

Update the system.

    cmd
  
    sudo zypper refresh && sudo zypper update

Install qemu-kvm , libvirt and the dependencies.

    cmd
  
    sudo zypper install qemu-kvm
sudo zypper install libvirt libvirt-daemon libvirt-client libvirt-devel ruby-devel gcc

Install Vagrant.

    cmd
  
    wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/2.1.2/vagrant_2.1.2_x86_64.rpm
sudo zypper install vagrant_2.1.2_x86_64.rpm

Configure Libvirt

Start and enable the libvirtd service.

    cmd
  
    sudo systemctl start libvirtd.service
sudo systemctl enable libvirtd.service

Add your user to the libvirt group.

    cmd
  
    sudo usermod -aG libvirt $USER

Set an environment variable for the default libvirt uri as qemu:///system . Without this virsh commands point to the users qemu:///session uri which does not have privileges to add/view system wide networks.

    cmd
  
    sudo sh -c 'echo LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI=qemu:///system >> /etc/environment'
source /etc/environment

Create a vagrant-libvirt network using an xml file with the below contents.

    file
  

    <network connections='1'>
  <name>vagrant-libvirt</name>
  <forward mode='nat'>
    <nat>
      <port start='1024' end='65535'/>
    </nat>
  </forward>
  <bridge name='virbr1' stp='on' delay='0'/>
  <ip address='192.168.121.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'>
    <dhcp>
      <range start='192.168.121.2' end='192.168.121.254'/>
    </dhcp>
  </ip>
</network>
  

Define and start the network.

    cmd
  
    virsh net-define vagrant-libvirt.xml
virsh net-start vagrant-libvirt
virsh net-autostart vagrant-libvirt

Plugin Install

There is a problem with some of the file linkages when trying to install the vagrant-libvirt plugin. When initially trying to install the plugin I got the following error.

    cmd
  

    Installing the 'vagrant-libvirt' plugin. This can take a few minutes...
Fetching: excon-0.62.0.gem (100%)
Fetching: formatador-0.2.5.gem (100%)
Fetching: fog-core-1.43.0.gem (100%)
Fetching: fog-json-1.2.0.gem (100%)
Fetching: mini_portile2-2.3.0.gem (100%)
Fetching: nokogiri-1.8.4.gem (100%)
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Bundler, the underlying system Vagrant uses to install plugins,
reported an error. The error is shown below. These errors are usually
caused by misconfigured plugin installations or transient network
issues. The error from Bundler is:

ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    current directory: /home/bradmin/.vagrant.d/gems/2.4.4/gems/nokogiri-1.8.4/ext/nokogiri
/opt/vagrant/embedded/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20180807-6441-sx07te.rb extconf.rb
checking if the C compiler accepts ... *** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary
libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more details.  You may
need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
	--with-opt-dir
	--with-opt-include
	--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
	--with-opt-lib
	--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
	--with-make-prog
	--without-make-prog
	--srcdir=.
	--curdir
	--ruby=/opt/vagrant/embedded/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME)
	--help
	--clean
/opt/vagrant/embedded/lib/ruby/2.4.0/mkmf.rb:457:in `try_do': The compiler failed to generate an executable file. (RuntimeError)
You have to install development tools first.
	from /opt/vagrant/embedded/lib/ruby/2.4.0/mkmf.rb:572:in `block in try_compile'
	from /opt/vagrant/embedded/lib/ruby/2.4.0/mkmf.rb:523:in `with_werror'
	from /opt/vagrant/embedded/lib/ruby/2.4.0/mkmf.rb:572:in `try_compile'
	from extconf.rb:138:in `nokogiri_try_compile'
	from extconf.rb:162:in `block in add_cflags'
	from /opt/vagrant/embedded/lib/ruby/2.4.0/mkmf.rb:630:in `with_cflags'
	from extconf.rb:161:in `add_cflags'
	from extconf.rb:410:in `<main>'

To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log which can be found here:

  /home/bradmin/.vagrant.d/gems/2.4.4/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.4.0/nokogiri-1.8.4/mkmf.log

extconf failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in /home/bradmin/.vagrant.d/gems/2.4.4/gems/nokogiri-1.8.4 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/bradmin/.vagrant.d/gems/2.4.4/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.4.0/nokogiri-1.8.4/gem_make.out
  

The makefile log points to an issue with the libreadline.so.7 file.

    cmd
  

    "gcc -o conftest -I/opt/vagrant/embedded/include/ruby-2.4.0/x86_64-linux -I/opt/vagrant/embedded/include/ruby-2.4.0/ruby/backward -I/opt/vagrant/embedded/include/ruby-2.4.0 -I.  -I/opt/vagrant/embedded/include   -I/opt/vagrant/embedded/include -I/vagrant-substrate/cache/ruby-2.4.4/include -O3 -fPIC  conftest.c  -L. -L/opt/vagrant/embedded/lib -Wl,-rpath,/opt/vagrant/embedded/lib -L/opt/vagrant/embedded/lib -Wl,-rpath,/opt/vagrant/embedded/lib -L. -L/opt/vagrant/embedded/lib -Wl,-rpath=XORIGIN/../lib:/opt/vagrant/embedded/lib -fstack-protector -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic -L/opt/vagrant/embedded/lib  -Wl,-rpath,/opt/vagrant/embedded/lib     -Wl,-rpath,'/../lib' -Wl,-rpath,'/../lib' -lruby  -lpthread -lrt -lgmp -ldl -lcrypt -lm   -lc "
sh: /opt/vagrant/embedded/lib/libreadline.so.7: no version information available (required by sh)
sh: symbol lookup error: /opt/vagrant/embedded/lib/libreadline.so.7: undefined symbol: PC
checked program was:
/* begin */
1: #include "ruby.h"
2:
3: int main(int argc, char **argv)
4: {
5:   return 0;
6: }
/* end */
  

The answer to the riddle was found in the vagrant-libvirt issues log here and here . By simply renaming the offending file with the .disabled extension installing the plugin now succeeds.

    cmd
  
    sudo mv /opt/vagrant/embedded/lib/libreadline.so.7 /opt/vagrant/embedded/lib/libreadline.so.7.disabled

    cmd
  

    vagrant plugin install vagrant-libvirt

# output

Installing the 'vagrant-libvirt' plugin. This can take a few minutes...
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Fetching: ruby-libvirt-0.7.1.gem (100%)
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Fetching: fog-xml-0.1.3.gem (100%)
Fetching: fog-libvirt-0.5.0.gem (100%)
Fetching: vagrant-libvirt-0.0.43.gem (100%)
Installed the plugin 'vagrant-libvirt (0.0.43)'!
  

Outro

And that it, with the Vagrant and the vagrant-libvirt plugin installed I can successfully build Vagrant boxes.