jfenal-zz / ansible-role-vminstaller

Ansible VMInstallre role

Ansible Role : VMINSTALLER

This ansible role is for installing virtual machines using ansible with libvirt.

The role presumes you have an hypervisor running Linux with KVM and Libvirt. It uses virt-install to execute the installation of the VM. The role can deply to multiple architectures and distributions.

Dependencies

• Ansible (on the management node)
• Libvirt with python modules including the virt-install tool
• Access to the Linux Distribution Repositories (on the hypervisor)

Architectures

The role is currently supported for :

• x86_64
• powerpc (ppc64,ppc64le,ppc64le,powerpc)

Distributions

Currently working distributions that have been tested (in a limited capacity):

• CentOS
  • CentOS6
  • CentOS7
• Red Hat
  • RHEL6
  • RHEL7
• PowerEL
  • PEL7
• Scientific Linux
  • SL6
  • SL7
• Debian :
  • debian7
  • debian8
• MS Windows
  • WinSrv2008(r2)
  • WinSrv2012(r2)

Work In Progress

The role is being worked on for the following distros :

• Ubuntu (automated install problem, with both preseed as wel as kickstart based)
• FreeBSD (works in some cases)
• OpenBSD (works in some cases)
• Windows 7 Pro / Windows 10 Pro (VDI, requires better graphics support)

Authors

• Toshaan Bharvani - [e-mail] - (http://www.vantosh.com)